As a fan of modernist architecture, Nicolas Ghesquière staged Louis Vuitton’s Cruise 2022 (Resort 2022) show at Axe Majeur, a sculpture park outside of Paris conceived by the late Israeli environmental artist Dani Karavan and the Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in 1980.
For his latest outing, Ghesquière borrowed from the peaceful and simplistic geometry of the location – an almost two-mile-long straight path punctuated by bright red and towering concrete pillars – presenting resort-style clothing in juicy colors, rich jacquards, snappy ’60s shapes and in a slew of references to space conquest.
“One needs nothing more than the most beautiful of passports: creation”, read the show notes of the collection. “An optimistic company akin to luminous ‘marching bands’ of joyful color. A collection of proud, positive looks that advance straight ahead, serenely”.