Spotlight: Louis Vuitton Series 2 Exhibition
Photo Credit: Mike Gardner
Photo Credit: Mike Gardner
Photo Credit: Mike Gardner
Photo Credit: Mike Gardner
Photo Credit: Mike Gardner
Photo Credit: Mike Gardner
Photo Credit: Mike Gardner
Photo Credit: Billy Farrell
Fashion exhibitions—once so controversial—are now museum mainstays, but curators are still debating how to best display the works. Nicolas Ghesquière and his team of creatives who designed the clothes and visual elements of the Louis Vuitton Series 2: Past, Present and Future show that opened in Los Angeles on Friday, February 6, devised the most beautiful solution: An Olafur Eliasson mazed mirror installation. Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic artist who dreamed up waterfalls in New York harbor and a frozen BMW art car at SFMOMA, created a looking glass work for the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris where the spring 2015 women’s show took place. The French fashion house wisely brought a version of the reflective sculpture on the road with the other multimedia components of the show—including the clothes themselves—and a recreated backstage area wallpapered with images of the original staging space shot by Jean-Paul Goude. In all, the various components make for an eye-catching exhibition mounted inside a sprawling warehouse near the intersection of Highland Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. Here in L.A., viewers stand inside Eliasson’s mirrors to watch the parade of models in the 48 looks of Ghesquière’s spring 2015 collection. The effect, reflected and refracted in countless slivers, is worth seeing before February 22, after which time the pop-up show, looking glass and all, will be shipped to Beijing. Because even without the arresting display, the clothes and accessories are among the fairest in the land this season.
By Elizabeth Varnell
Pictured: Screens projecting images of faces reciting lines from David Lynch’s Dune at the Louis Vuitton Series 2 Exhibition in Los Angeles.
Photo by: Mike Gardner
