THE RUNWAY REPORT
Oct 07, 2019
5 minutes
BY BENJAMIN FITZGERALD
LOUIS VUITTON
Louis Vuitton creative director Virgil Abloh sent out an inclusive collection swathed in streetwear swagger with notes of Michael Jackson. The fall show saw crystal-beaded tour jackets walk alongside layers of tailored grey—think flowy trousers, blazers and boxy bomber jackets—with a houndstooth suit reworked using miniature maps of Africa. Abloh also appropriated the US flag into statement outerwear—and all this to the tune of Billie Jean.
VERSACE
“WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW IN THIS COLLECTION ARE THE DIFFERENT FACETS OF A MAN WHO, LIKE EVERYONE, DRESSES ACCORDING TO THE OCCASION AND HAS GAINED THE COURAGE THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE BEFORE. IF I HAD TO FIND A WORD THAT DEFINES TODAY’S MEN, IT WOULD BE DARING” —DONATELLA VERSACE
Donatella Versace went hell for leather, sending out I-don’t-give-a-damn models dressed in the house’s iconic ’90s bondage prints. Red knits and yellow topcoats roared along the runway, while a Tom Ford collab saw the New Yorker’s logo
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