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THE RUNWAY REPORT

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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