LOUIS VUITTON SPRING SUMMER 2025 FASHION SHOW

Hillary Latos

French fashion is a formidable soft power, radiating a tradition of savoirfaire, an art de vivre – a cultural singularity.

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Taken literally, soft power is also a fascinating oxymoron. How to reconcile two antagonists, softness and power?

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The Louis Vuitton Women's Spring-Summer 2025 collection thrives on contrast, seemingly generating constant movement.

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Sartorial soft power can also be a striking back-and-forth between two contradictory yet harmonious opposites.

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The suppleness of structure. Intractable lightness. Mastering vibrations. Spidery depths. Ethereal opulence. Razor-sharp delicacy. Resolute femininity. The mechanics of fluidity...

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This season, pictorial works by the artist Laurent Grasso appear on selected pieces that reprise five paintings from the series entitled Studies into the Past.

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The musical set is comprised of a mix of four titles taken from the new album by Jamie xx, “In Waves."

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