CRUISE CONTROL
LOUIS VUITTON
Louis Vuitton Cruise shows have a well-established trope: they are always held in jaw-dropping examples of modernist architecture in various destinations across the world. Niemeyer’s Niterói Museum in Brazil? Tick. Lautner’s Bob Hope home in California? Tick.
When Louis Vuitton announced that its sixth Cruise show would be held in New York at the recently restored TWA Flight Centre, there was anticipation that the house would deliver an easy, ’60s-tinged affair. After all, why hold the show in architect Eero Saarinen’s gently arcing winged masterpiece of modernity if you aren’t going to riff on the optimistic naivety of the jet age?
But on the night, there wasn’t a funky orange jumpsuit in sight. Instead, the mood was far more
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