Prior to Nicolas Ghesquière’ fourth ready-to wear- collection for Louis Vuitton, the French luxury house opened up the designer’s creative process and influences to the public as ‘Series 3’, a 5,000sqm exhibition taking up three floors of 180 Strand.
The first room provides an encounter with a structure familiar to regulars of Ghesquière’s Vuitton shows: a geodesic dome. Here, lifted from a show set, it hangs suspended below a mirrored ceiling. Audio of a recording of a storm coupled with text written by Jüergen Teller, introduces guest’s to Ghesquière’s favoured motif of a girl on an expedition. A white tunnel made of sail cloth continues the theme of journey, as does the next room it leads to, where intentionally disorientating videos are projected on walls surrounding an oversized Vuitton truck.
The first room provides an encounter with a structure familiar to regulars of Ghesquière’s Vuitton shows: a geodesic dome. Here, lifted from a show set, it hangs suspended below a mirrored ceiling. Audio of a recording of a storm coupled with text written by Jüergen Teller, introduces guest’s to Ghesquière’s favoured motif of a girl on an expedition. A white tunnel made of sail cloth continues the theme of journey, as does the next room it leads to, where intentionally disorientating videos are projected on walls surrounding an oversized Vuitton truck.
Edited from article first published in Wallpaper (21/09/15) written by Siska Lyssens.
