Louis Vuitton S/S 08 Paris

[Mojito]

I'm really in love with this whole collection.
Honestly, give me any dress that looks like a cocktail and I'm all over that.

 

[Djavanjmiles]

Even though i hate to say it but I kinda agree with the reviews. This collection was nothing more than just a bag collection and shoe collection. Everything else was dull and uninteresting. To me it seems that since Marc lost some weight his ego has got better. His creativity seems to be lacking too. I'm usually a LV fan but not this time.

I meant his Ego got BIGGER. Not BETTER.

...I've been listening to much Daft Punk.

 

[Kamelot]

all I have to say is WOWZI

 

[adorefaith]

this is the ugliest thing i have seen in a long time..
i dont understand marc jacobs..what is his point..

 

[vogueness]

yes the more I look at it - the more faults I am starting to find with the clothes collection - I still love some of the bags though

 

[*JJ*]

here is menkes' review from iht:

By the time Marc Jacobs took to the runway at his Louis Vuitton show, pointing gleefully at the video-screen bag he toted and making facial gestures, everyone had already got the message: "You want handbags? Take that! And that! And that!"
There were, it is true, 6 out of 57 exits without those money-spinning bags. And the clothes were colorful, if chaotic. But since the show opened with a dozen of the most iconic of famous supermodels (including Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Nadja Auermann) dressed in nothing but translucent nylon raincoats over colored corsetry and with a lacy mask across the lips (oh! and carrying handbags, of course), the Jacobs theme of the season was set.
Vuitton had worked in collaboration with the American artist Richard Prince, famous for his sardonic takes as art works and for his "Naughty Nurses" series of fetishized hospital figures, re-colored in lurid shades on postwar pulp fiction covers.
The show tent was lined with similar book covers announcing "Tokyo by Night" - or any other city you could name to cover the vast space. The bags themselves seemed rather calmer: big, square shapes with brush strokes or photographic effects wiping out some of the "Louis Vuitton" letters under what seemed like a plasticized surface.
How fortunate that there was a letter on each surgical cap of the sexed-up nurses, who lined up to spell out LOUIS VUITTON, as did the finale of corseted women, bringing a Dolce & Gabbana-style ending to the show.
Prince defined what has been called "appropriation art," using existing work to morph it into something else. That is Jacobs's method too. The clothes took what the music business would describe as "samplings" of existing pieces, putting them randomly together, often to fine effect, as in a sky blue jersey dress worn over a rainbow of pink/mauve/blue tulle bunched underneath. The vivid colors were compelling: thigh-high hose in spring green rising below a narrow skirt split at the middle; or the coral, yellow, turquoise and scarlet used for bouncy skirt dresses.
Was it art? Was it fashion? Just count the LV bags.

 

[happycanadian]

EVA! NAOMI! KAROLINA!!!!!

i'm in Heaven.


i think the clothes will definitely take some getting used to. the constant layering is a bit much. but the bags are definitely fantastic, and i'm sure that's where LV makes most of it's $$$ anyway.

 

[shopdiary]

via Fashion Week Daily

This had the makings of fashion’s most notorious current feud. In one corner: International Herald Tribune legend Suzy Menkes, in another, Marc Jacobs. Following a painful two-hour delay for Marc’s signature collection show in N.Y., not to mention a dizzying runway order, Menkes wrote a less than complimentary reaction in her review of the show. “I would like to murder him with my bare hands and never see another Marc Jacobs show in my entire life,” she uttered in print, before coldly dismissing his clothes as “a freak’s costume party.” She later attempted to retract her statements by explaining that “my British sense of humor fell flat.” However, the damage was done and the whole world was waiting for a fierce showdown at Jacobs’s Louis Vuitton show last night.

The duel turned into a love fest. Marc, with a smile on his face, devised a plan to surprise the legendary writer. He left Menkes a Marc Jacobs T-shirt on her seat, tied up with an elegant bow. The IHT fashion scribe looked puzzled at first, but then immediately scooped it up, along with her show program, to peruse the front row (she put the shirt in her small Christian Lacroix handbag). “I haven’t opened it yet,” was all Menkes would say when asked what words the shirt bore. Jacobs, however was less enigmatic. He winked to Chic Report and divulged that it was a gentle “love letter.”

 

[liashoes]

^^^^Ha ha, so funny. I'm late to the thread, but I love this collection in that you can see what you can do with your sleeveless sweaters and cardigans and skirts and t-shirts and long gloves. It's very gifted in the idea category I think.

 

[La bordélique]

I find that t-shirt hilarious!

 

[ShuggaStiletto]

Haha, well I go to school with Richard Prince's son, and when I first heard about this I was really confused. If you've seen some of his art, the collection (nurses, text on bags in particular) make a lot more sense. Doesn't translate that well to high fashion, but it's still great from a creative standpoint.

 

[gia0202]

i really like it. it is soo zany, colorful, candyworld--- I feel like he snagged some pieces from my wardrobe when he made this. i was literally wearing a knee length black net tutu skirt with a michael-jackson inspired baby pink cropped jacket and crafty burnished gold converse kicks.

i love the sherbet colors. and this was jsut after i compained to someone how marc usually designs with a spefici skintone in mind--- very sofia coppola. thank God he started loing scarlet --so he could use different colors

 

[ysljunkie]

“a freak’s costume party.” .(im gotta use that!)...I like it it was a great show!!!!!!! thats more than i can say for many off the s/s2008 collections ....sure not all...most of it is unwearable but I kinna think thats the point ....Im drinking the koolaid guys and it taste's good

 

[lordevan]

the nurse hats are so tacky and tasteless

 

[homeboy]

I don't know about you guys but I actually like this. It's nice to see a different side of Marc. His latest collections were starting to get a bit monotinic with the same old "pretty lady"-look.

 

[liberty33r1b]

i wonder how much that t shirt would sell for on ebay...

 

[notmanons]

It's a very 'fun' and vibrant collection with a lot of mischief . I think this suits his own line more than such a prestigious brand like Louis Vuitton, I see LV's aesthatic as older and much more mature. Though the shoes are beautiful.

However, What I like about this collection is how provocative some of it is, especially with the back of Magdalena's look, really sexy, also the sheer fabrics revealing certain parts and the bra straps peeking out and the back's bare showing the bra and skirts with the slits high up on the thigh.

I think individually it will be a lot more.....wearable? Apart from the colour schemes.

I don't know what I want to say about the bags...

 

[LoveLetter]

About that tongue thing...Marc Jacobs left this message on Cathy Horyn's blog:

"I did NOT stick my tongue out at Suzy Menkes……I pulled a stupid face with my tongue out in happiness for being done with what has been a great but most stressful season for me. I am not stupid, childish or a vindictive person….I had prior to the show left a silly t-shirt and a nice note for Suzy on her seat. Why would I do anything to further upset her? Right after a show!!?? Cathy and all else reading this, I am surprised that anyone who knows me at all think that I am that petty or stupid! Anyone who has ever been on a stage would know you can’t actually see the audience. I made a face at no one in particular….I didn’t have a clue as to who was sitting there. Come on guys, give me a break!!!!! "

 

[zaraffe]

HQ's

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[cake_batter]

even better in hq! thanks so much!