The inclusive portrait of virgil pop in the autumn-winter 2021 parade of Louis Vuitton

On Thursday, January 21, the Tennis Club de Paris had more of the Barcelona Pavilion - designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the International Exhibition of 1929 - than of an enclosure where to practice sports.A modernist space, decorated with large blocks of green marble, which became the scenario on which Virgil urb. A parade with high performance doses in which the designer sought to redefine the uniform for men.

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In him, different characters appeared.Archetypal male figures that usually associate with a specific image, with a way of being and with a way of dressing.From the tramp to the street vendor, until he reaches the artist or the architect, passing through the art march.Each one dressed in his uniform, with the clothes that defines his trade.Until Obloh, he wonders if all these roles really define the modern man: to whom he prefers to dress with elements of other cultures - like Ghana's stamped fabrics - to provide them with new and diverse meanings.

Vuitton's creative director was able to transfer that message that aims to convey in each and every one of his parades: that there are no borders or cultural barriers.All this juxtaposition of concepts is inspired by the Stranger in the Village essay by Jame Baldwin, a work that speaks of what the writer was a African -American resident in a Swiss city.A dialogue with which Obloh comes into play and shows how he, African American of Illinois (United States) has become the commander of a European brand.

A creative and conceptual torrent in which winks were not missing to his childhood attempts to break the stereotyped man of recent times: “As a child, our dreams are personified through archetypes.But thanks to the evolution of society - says the creative director of Louis Vuitton -, it seems normal should not be privilege since clothing codes should not be associated with the genetics of the human being. ”Therefore, Obloh seeks to free man from conventions and endowed them with skirts, scarves and scarves that flee from labels such as cultural, sexual or gender origin.

A parade in which the costumes do not hide that streetwear pedigree of which the American designer usually shows.The silhouettes of the same respond to the canons of the classic Board of Trustees, although they oversize them and give them an identity in which the color is not lacking thanks to the striped prints, with the LV monogram of the French house or through that they have tribal motifs.A collection where textures, layers and materials such as leather, wool or silk abound in a colored palette where the faint tones predominate.Emerald green, pearl or white gray contrast with those proposals that took place in the cities of Shanghai and Tokyo where vitamin colors were everything.

A little architecture

What would be from Paris without its Eiffel tower or what would be from the Great Apple of New York without its skyscrapers?Ulh, training architect, explores the world of civil engineering through recognizable urban landscapes that he leads to bulky stamped jackets.A wink to that world that he seeks to make trips like those of yesteryear.A world that writes a new generation in whose DNA the gene of diversity is embedded.A gene where art, fashion and life are part of an integrative, inclusive thought.