Who wouldn’t be optimistic about a year that kicks off with an explosive explosion of polka dots?
Ten years after its first collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, Louis Vuitton has once again teamed up with her for the first major collection of the year. Hundreds of his LV merch (sneakers, slides, bags, bikinis, bucket hats, coats, skirts, pants, both men’s and women’s) feature multi-colored dots, metallic dots, and pretty much any other imaginable dot. permutations of are interspersed. Above the sea of logos.
Launched on Sunday in Asia and Friday elsewhere, the line raises the bar on what’s fast becoming a cliched fashion trope. It also serves as an upbeat prelude to an otherwise uncertain year.
Yes, we can get nervous about household spending and geopolitics, and perhaps the resurgence of COVID, but take a moment to window-shop past Kusama’s spotty reimagining of the LV world. Even better, this simply drops one of the two. The next batch of merch featuring more of her masterpieces will be out at the end of her March. This is a reminder that there are many interesting, distracting, and possibly thrilling fashion developments shaping our self-expression and wardrobes in 2023.
What else are you looking forward to?
Stylesetters around the world were struck by designer Alessandro Gucci, who transformed Gucci from a hardcore avatar in a gold-plated python skin into a sprawling hodgepodge of emotions, products and identities. It was when Michele announced in November. I was getting off. His departure leaves a huge void in his luxury megabrand, not to mention pop his culture in general, and raises the question of what happens next. Who comes out on top will be partly responsible for resetting the mood in the industry.
Speaking of highly influential new jobs, more than a year after Virgil Abloh’s death, Louis Vuitton has yet to name a new menswear designer. We don’t know if it will take place before next season’s big debut, but we haven’t seen Burberry’s Daniel Lee yet. Lee is a well-known designer who left Bottega Veneta under the clouds in late 2021. Whether he can bring a similar turnaround to the UK’s largest luxury maison, and his own reputation, is at the 2nd. It will be a test for London Fashion Week in May.
When Phoebe Philo, aka Greta Garbo of the fashion world, revealed that she would be making a comeback to the fashion world under her own name in July 2021 with her own brand, many hard-working grown-up women grabbed their chests. squealed with joy. Ever since Philo stepped down as creative her director of Celine about five years ago, she’s been thinking about what to wear.
After all, it was Celine who became the patron saint of wise adult women everywhere, with Philo quietly embracing complex extravagant minimalism. On condition! joy! Rapture!
More information was promised in January of last year, but there was no news from Philo Camp that month and throughout the year. Money wise says the Phoebe Philo brand will finally debut in 2023. Expect more than one of Lady Gaga’s platform stilettos.
It’s hard to ignore the fact that movies and streamers have become not just massive viewing events, but massive fashion events, and that costume designers are often just as influential as fashion designers. For that reason, the two premiers are almost guaranteed to be in closets everywhere.
First up is Daisy Jones & the Six, an Amazon Prime Video series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book set for release on March 3, right in the middle of Paris Fashion Week.
Starring Riley Keough as a Stevie Nicks-like main character, and costume designer Dennis Wingate’s 1970s Flower Power variety of rock ‘n’ roll designs are all but guaranteed to shape fashion for the rest of the festival. increase. Year.
And in July comes the cinematic event that has permeated our collections since the first screenshot leaked last year. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” costume design by Jacqueline Durand. Expect a summer of neon pinks and yellows, relatable to postmodern revisionism in classic fashion palettes.
On May 6th, Charles III and his wife Camilla will be officially crowned. It’s said to be less grand than Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, but it still offers an opportunity to reset the royal agenda. Prince Harry and Meghan’s revelation (this month follows the publication of Harry’s memoir). Get ready for at least a touch of glitz and circumstance by direct royals including Prince William, Prince of Wales. His wife, Catherine, and their three children were always in harmony. Given that Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan will also reportedly be invited, the bet on style will be even bigger.
With the fairytale ceremony honoring Karl Lagerfeld this year and just days after the Met Gala showcasing another kind of fashion royalty, it’s going to be an unforgettable dressing week. right.
Fashion tends to be afraid to air disputes in court, but two high-profile incidents could occur in New York’s Southern District earlier this year.
Opening arguments in the Adidas v. Thom Browne trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit take place on Tuesday, with Adidas pursuing the Zegna-owned fashion brand (whose founder is also the new president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America). . His use of four and his five stripes in sportswear is too close to Adidas’s three stripes logo. Given the growing synergies between the worlds of high fashion and sports, the lawsuits will continue for the next week or two, so they could have a big impact on your wardrobe.
Then at the end of the month (assuming the parties don’t reach a settlement first) Hermès v Rothschild. Mason Rothschild is the artist who created the Metabarkin NFT series. It was also a comment on consumer culture, including all the potential implications of what happens when issues of fashion, creativity, artistic expression, and the metaverse collide. Your potential wardrobe will never be the same, let alone the relationship between fashion and the nebulous collecting arena, also known as the irreplaceable token.
