The best sets of SS19 Men's Fashion Weeks From the rainbow catwalk of Virgil Abloh x Louis Vuitton to the beach near Marseilles of Jacquemus
Usually the designers reserve the most spectacular sets and locations for women's fashion shows, but even in these fashion weeks dedicated to menswear, we have seen collections presented in special places.
Let's take a look at the most beautiful and interesting choices of the SS19: from the rainbow walkway by Virgil Abloh x Louis Vuitton to the beach near Marseille by Jacquemus, from the architecture of Prada to the show in Liberty State Park in Saint Laurent .
What is your favorite set?
Jacquemus: beach of the Calanque de Sormiou
Simon Porte Jacquemus made his debut with Le Gadjo, his first men's collection, on the beach of the Calanque de Sormiou, an inlet where the cliff descends precipitously over the sea in the Calanques Natural Park near Marseille.
Regarding this choice he said:
"I grew up here, just behind those big limestone rocks. I grew up here, among the olive trees and the red tomato fields. I grew up here, with those men in blue overalls, paired with blue handbags and hats, all light blue [...] with those clean and ironed white Saturday night shirts that give you a nice tan in the summer [...] I grew up here, barefoot, bare-chested, with a strong scent in the air. I grew up here in the Mediterranean. "
Thom Browne: École des Beaux-Arts
A multicolored fence framing a garden full of miniature houses with a vaguely 1950s flavor, turning them, balloons, flowers and a plethora of gnomes merrily mowing the lawn.
For his show, Thom Browne transforms the École des Beaux-Arts into a fantastic hybrid between Alice in Wonderland and Willy Wonka, perfectly mirrored also by the eccentric preppy clothes, in squared prints, multicolored, with crabs , lobsters and whales, in oversize corduroy blazers, shorts or bowler hats.
Rick Owens: Palais de Toyko
Rick Owens' invitations for the show came in the form of anti-pollution masks, an accessory necessary to deal with the colored smoke that came out from a series of metal columns by wrapping the catwalk.
These large clouds of blue, yellow, red and vivid green filled the air in the large courtyard of the Palais de Tokyo, creating an effect, at the same time, particularly beautiful and uncomfortable, almost apocalyptic.
The same sentiments evoked by the inspirations of the collection: the Tatlin's Tower, a monument designed by the Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin and the Tower of Babel, a legendary biblical building designed to reach paradise, but never ended by the chaos and confusion triggered by God who, making people speak many different languages, prevented them from understanding each other.
Louis Vuitton: Jardin du Palais-Royal
After the cloister of the Hôtel de l'Artillerie chosen last January, Hermès returned to the cloister of the Cordeliers, occupied by the Ecole de Médecine Pierre et Marie, to present the men's collection for spring-summer 2019.
The courtyard of this monument, symbol of the French revolution, which today is a cultural center whose mission is to spread scientific knowledge, full of hydrangeas and other plants, but also of linen spread on a thread to dry, is the perfect casual chic set for the creations of Véronique Nichanian.
Plein Sport: via Manzoni 42
Philipp Plein recreates for his show a sort of Beverly Hills Tennis Club, with the models turned into talented clones of Björn Borg and John McEnroe!
Everything is ready for the set: green lawn, net, scoreboard... a perfect tennis court populated by boys and girls in sportswear, with visors, headbands, leggings, cuffs and poles.
Milan better than Wimbledon.
