Nicolas Ghesquière - Designer, Creative Director of Louis Vuitton

[alwaysademo]

I totally understand what you meant here but also I think sometimes a designer’s work can be informed by their curiosity and their knowledge of fashion/costume history rather than a quote on quote affinity for a Particular Artist.

For me the looks of the SS2018 shows NG’s love for clashes but the jackets inform me more on his knowledge or research of costume and fashion history not a particular love for a period or an artist.

Some designers are more linear. They loves Mapplethorpe, they makes collections about sex, leather and a cold atmosphere.

Someone like Jean Paul Gaultier has more talked for example about fashion and pop culture than Art, architecture or anything.

It’s quite impossible for me for example to imagine what his interior or taste in Art would be and how those evolved.

I don't disagree with your riff on SS2018. That side-by-side is to nail down a similarity, but I wouldn't reduce someone to just that one reference, that would be unfair and dumb on my part. The point of that post was to rebuke the implied idea that his LV boils down to 80's sci-fi schtick. His scope is much more vast than that, which was literally what I said.

I also referenced Gaudí and Claudio Bravo since those share the same earthy visual dialect, especially Gaudí whose architecture is radically playful, organic and human, so if NG likes these things it's reductive to flatten him down to cheap labels like "space-age" and "future retro" all the time.

We were talking about architecture/interior design and how that reflects a designer's entire ouevre. How and where he lives informs his design sensibilities. The Lautner house was ahead of its time when it was built and still looks avant-garde now, there's an aesthetic thread there with what Nicolas makes, also a symbolic one since his old Balenciaga is all the rage in the archive market right now. People still look modern and unique in them, so I can't help but assume Nicolas and John Lautner share similar ethos in their work. Let's see if his LV will age as gracefully.