Louis Vuitton Men's F/W 2007

January 26, 2007
With the Eurythmics on the sound track and Annie Lennox's signature red slickback on the models, you could hardly fail to spot the sleek eighties subtext in the latest Louis Vuitton collection. Unless, of course, your head was swimming with visions of David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, the movie that preceded Lennox by a decade and inspired her android fabulosity. Vuitton menswear designer Paul Helbers surfed this retro-futuristic wave with a collection that subtly combined tech and trad, hard and soft—hence the appearance of a Mitteleuropa black leather cape and fluoro-orange trainers on the same catwalk.

This play with contrast has been an evolving theme in the Vuitton men's collection—two seasons ago, it was about nylon and chinchilla, here it was nylon and silk velvet. The label's signature colors were reconfigured as a geometric patchwork for a nylon parka. The velvet showed up as jackets, waistcoats, and—best of all—shoes that, in an ideal world, would be mandated footwear for all public officials.

After the show, Vuitton design honcho Marc Jacobs tipped his cap to Helbers, praising the collection's dégradé effects. (In one outfit, these ran spectacularly through jacket, sweater, pants, and shoes.)

But the potential genius of Vuitton's menswear is that it can also offer something as "basic" as a tan-leather-trimmed shearling to a man with money to spend and a taste for big-brand luxury.
— Tim Blanks

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[wsx8st]

just for the record this was the first video of the actual runway on you tube and on the net =P so don't critique it's poor quality...

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[abdul456]

:32 is sick.

[XtraceBXL]

Nice

[Liamcoles85]

The quality of this vbideo is terrible, it has been ripped off the original Louis Vuitton video from their website. Just wondering if anyone knows the music that is playing in this video, been trying to find it for ages!

[poushk]

oh shit is so wack

shame on them

[coljmcq]

LOL what did they spend,, $2 on the shooting and editing of this video,,, you would think with what they charge for their stuff,, they could afford something better than one of their kids shooting with the family handycam.. :P

[raypronk]

pathetic