Nicolas Ghesquière - Designer, Creative Director of Louis Vuitton
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Catherine Deneuve in LV recently is the worst red carpet look I can remember.
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OMG Lola701 you beat me to it ! 
I'm watching the interview as well and came straight here to post about it. He not only said that he nowanted to launch his own brand but that he can do it now and will do it pretty soon 
So excited. He looks really amazing at the moment btw. He was very handsome, funny and with an amazing repartee during the interview.
I'm watching the interview as well and came straight here to post about it. He not only said that he nowanted to launch his own brand but that he can do it now and will do it pretty soon So excited. He looks really amazing at the moment btw. He was very handsome, funny and with an amazing repartee during the interview.
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@WOLKFOLK LOL! I was very happy when he said it (in a weird way). I don't know if it means that he will not renew his contract with Vuitton, build his brand with LVMH or go à la Dries/Tom and create his own little brand.
I'm already ready to spend my money on it.
Yes, he looks good. He is well dressed and always so handsome. Some very diplomatic answers (when he was asked about Raf, Hedi and Alber). I didn't know he was so good with throwing shades.
I'm already ready to spend my money on it.
Yes, he looks good. He is well dressed and always so handsome. Some very diplomatic answers (when he was asked about Raf, Hedi and Alber). I didn't know he was so good with throwing shades.
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No I don't think he's leaving LV. He seems really happy there, he said how thankful he was to Bernard Arnault for hiring him and he also talked about the sadness of all the recent departures from Hedi to Elbaz. I think he could launch his own brand with a backing from LVMH. I can totally see that, making him a French counterpart to Marc Jacobs in a way.
I think he must be waiting for his position and his tenure at LV to be completely stable before venturing into this new project.Since LV seems to be doing very well with him so far, I guess it should happen soon.
Lola701 I loved his shade about Canal+ vs the muscial chairs in fashion, and how it's a shame to see designers who've really made their houses so famous leave ( Definitely a reference to Alber Elbaz with whom he's very close but could be Hedi as well). Oh and his little dig to Marine Le Pen was perfect. Loved his vision of the French woman as well. How she's more a fantasy for people abroad but also beautiful because of all her diversity and without a name because everybody should identify to her.
I think he must be waiting for his position and his tenure at LV to be completely stable before venturing into this new project.Since LV seems to be doing very well with him so far, I guess it should happen soon.
Lola701 I loved his shade about Canal+ vs the muscial chairs in fashion, and how it's a shame to see designers who've really made their houses so famous leave ( Definitely a reference to Alber Elbaz with whom he's very close but could be Hedi as well). Oh and his little dig to Marine Le Pen was perfect. Loved his vision of the French woman as well. How she's more a fantasy for people abroad but also beautiful because of all her diversity and without a name because everybody should identify to her.
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I hope/wish that he will create his little independent brand. He really seems happy at Vuitton...i mean, he don't have to worry about certain things like at Balenciaga + it's a commercial success.
This is the 2nd time in 6 months that he is doing a TV itw and i like it. He is even more likeable and interesting.
With Karl and Tom, he is the designer that i enjoy the most on itw. Gaultier is fun too but he is always talking about the 80's and Madonna...(it's getting boring).
Loic Prigent should do a documentary about him (+ Miuccia and Alaia).
This is the 2nd time in 6 months that he is doing a TV itw and i like it. He is even more likeable and interesting.
With Karl and Tom, he is the designer that i enjoy the most on itw. Gaultier is fun too but he is always talking about the 80's and Madonna...(it's getting boring).
Loic Prigent should do a documentary about him (+ Miuccia and Alaia).
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Quite the contrary IMO. NG's Vuitton is like an exercice of style while having his own brand means going back to what people loved about him + it means maybe a collaboration with Pierre Hardy.
NG unlike Tisci seems to have range.
I still have faith in him...even if i hate his last resort.
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Ditto, I still have some hope that he will deliver something truly exciting in the near future but already his ideas for this brand feel so stale and uninteresting.
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I think his time is gone and that he won't be cappable of delivering again. He's been working for a lot of time, no person in the world can be designing genius things for a lifetime. He's not fresh anymore. He lost his aura as a designer.
Anyway, if he ends up launching his own line, I hope he doesn't do it with LVMH or any other conglomerate.
Anyway, if he ends up launching his own line, I hope he doesn't do it with LVMH or any other conglomerate.
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The word in Paris is that he wants out of LV...
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I still believe that he can deliver something amazing. I agree this resort collection is bad in many ways but like he said in the past; you have to be experimental to bring something fresh to the table and he might fail at times, same thing can be applied to Miuccia. I genuinely think he's done pretty great things in LV so far, plus his FW collection is pretty phenomenal imo.
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i hope he doesn't move, at least not yet. There is simply too many empty seats to fill now, no longer musical chair and i don't even know what to make out of it now..
Plus, LV is relatively a clean palette for any designer to work with, it is after all not a fashion house to start with, and i never thought Marc Jacobs was much of a comparison anyways..
On a different note, i sometimes don't get it. It is not like if he were to start his own brand, he is able to be as creative as he wants and not sell? And I am sure LV allows that occasional creative but zero wearability clothes?
Why not use someone else"s money instead?
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On a different note, i sometimes don't get it. It is not like if he were to start his own brand, he is able to be as creative as he wants and not sell? And I am sure LV allows that occasional creative but zero wearability clothes?
Why not use someone else"s money instead?
Yeah, I get what you mean. At Louis Vuitton he could've done whatever he wanted... and he went for 100% normal clothes. In a way, Vuitton can be your own brand but without your name... You can do whatever you want because there is no legacy, and you can do it in better conditions than anywhere in the world since the budget is inmense.
Anyway, I think Nicolas is one of those designers who works better with a legacy. At Balenciaga, he started doing wonders once he could explore the archive...
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But i don't think that he is working at Vuitton like it is his own brand. It was a wonderful extension of the Marc Jacobs line but Nicolas seems to work with a different mindset.
I remember that in that system itw, he was talking about how people were saying that they couldn't make a difference between Balenciaga and his own style because it was such a perfect match and at the same time, he was frustrated because he didn't get the freedom he wanted to make things work.
His work at Vuitton really feels like "A JOB". He knows he has a mission, and financial expectations but at Vuitton, he doesn't have his Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster store and things he was used to.
His work at Vuitton is so self-referencial than it is almost a re-work of what did before.
I wanted to see him at Chanel because as Creative said, he did wonders when he started to explore the archives.
But i think that with his own line, he can create something fun and chic. He can build a strong atelier and create wearable and desirable clothes again.
Vuitton clientele is very different from Balenciaga. If you go to the RTW part of the stores, it's almost shocking.
I remember that in that system itw, he was talking about how people were saying that they couldn't make a difference between Balenciaga and his own style because it was such a perfect match and at the same time, he was frustrated because he didn't get the freedom he wanted to make things work.
His work at Vuitton really feels like "A JOB". He knows he has a mission, and financial expectations but at Vuitton, he doesn't have his Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster store and things he was used to.
His work at Vuitton is so self-referencial than it is almost a re-work of what did before.
I wanted to see him at Chanel because as Creative said, he did wonders when he started to explore the archives.
But i think that with his own line, he can create something fun and chic. He can build a strong atelier and create wearable and desirable clothes again.
Vuitton clientele is very different from Balenciaga. If you go to the RTW part of the stores, it's almost shocking.
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