For Louis Vuitton’s Fall-Winter 2021 Collection, Virgil Abloh takes the preconceived uniformity in menswear and breaks it down into a visual representation of how it should help people shape their own identity.
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As the world is slowly regaining its footing in the new normal by returning to offices and resuming work travels, Louis Vuitton’s Fall-Winter 2021 Collection highlights this narrative with a line that’s complete with the office dress code staples – tailored suits, Keepalls, and taurillon leather briefcases. But as one expects from a Virgil Abloh collection, he has more to show and tell.
The New Uniform
Deconstructing the narrative of dress codes, Abloh highlights how society has engraved a meaning behind the uniform of archetypes. For us, those archetypes come in the form of the doctor, architect, businessman, and creative. From the early question of ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ asked as children, men are already shaping their identity based on what these archetypes look like alone. The uniforms of the archetypes inseparably defines them: A doctor can only wear white, a businessman always lugs around a plain and heavy suitcase while the creative is the only one who can don any color. If a businessman shows up with a neon messenger bag instead of a briefcase, he is then taken less seriously. For Abloh, this is the notion that he strives to change through fashion – to keep the code but change the human values that have traditionally underpinned them. Therefore, allowing all to ‘dress that part’ with the shape of their individual identity – regardless of gender, sexuality, or the color of their skin.
Back To Work
Living in today’s social climate where we strive towards non-conformity yet due to the pandemic, also long for familiarity, Abloh takes the opportunity to reinvent formalwear. By fusing emerald greens, plastic materials, chrome accents, and draped garments, Abloh successfully creates a relatively fresh line without making it any less work-appropriate. A show of Abloh’s ability to have a step in both streetwear and formalwear while nodding to his Ghanaian heritage.
Originally planned to be viewed live, the show was instead filmed without guests at the Tennis Club de Paris against a green marble set for its runway. It was a performance show that was complete with jazz and rap that easily set the tone for the cool and forward collection fitting for work and play.
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