transforming a garden square in Paris into a giant playground to re-creating 1980s Brooklyn, so in moving to digital showcases it’s reassuring that he’s kept to his whacky, surrealist tendencies, even if we can’t experience it up close in person.
For spring/summer 2022, the designer unveiled a video in which models wend their way around a forest of silver birches in clothes that spliced martial arts sportswear with tailoring.Was this a metaphor for keeping up the fight when times are tough?
Possibly - the designer accessorised his models with swamping boxing gloves, alongside some very Covid-secure face coverings- alongside a mish-mash of flag motifs (a calling card of Abloh’s throughout his short tenure at Vuitton, as the first African.