Virgil Abloh Pares Back for Louis Vuitton Fall 2020 Menswear
After a three month hiatus from fashion, Virgil Abloh is back with his latest Menswear collection for Louis Vuitton. Having just shown his latest for Off-White in Paris yesterday, today his Fall 2020 Menswear offering titled “Heaven on Earth” hit the runways, signaling a pivot for the designer.

Louis Vuitton Menswear Fall 2020
In comparison with the surrealist stage design of luminous clouds and oversized Alice in Wonderlandesque objects by PLAYLAB, INC, the collection was resolutely pared back. Featuring sleek tailored double-breasted suiting, oversized leather trenches, and traditional workwear. Abloh was quoted backstage stating “the collection is about being open-minded and free, even in the constructs of formal menswear.”

Louis Vuitton Menswear Fall 2020
“Don’t let your day job define you” explained the show notes, and as the demure workwear book-ended the show, slowly towards the middle of the offering, models wearing more playful, experimental ensembles made their way around the space. Shirts had monogram cut-outs, boxy jackets, and trousers were embellished with glittering crystals and neon fuschia punctuated some of the sharply tailored suiting. Post-show, Abloh expressed his desire to pivot away from streetwear: “I want to push the industry in a different direction – not just sit in a comfortable spot and be like, ‘Oh, commercially it’s viable to just sell sneakers and jeans’. It’s fashion: everything goes in a cycle, things will die, things will come back. I want to propose tailoring.”

Cody Rooney is a Glossi mag contributor.
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