It’s that time of year when the fashion houses, not content with already showing two huge collections per year (Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter), decide to fly lucky editors, influencers, ‘it’ people and customers to lavish locations in far-flung and Instagramable destinations, to show off their cruise or resort collections.
Louis Vuitton held a show in San Diego this month, in the vast, brutalist Salk Institute. The clothes were futuristic in the extreme, a mix of modernist metallics, and dystopian draping, a sort of Dune sci-fi vibe, which, while charmingly hopeful, and terribly artistic, is not really where the world is at.
