The reference to “The Truman Show” in Louis Vuitton's show The setting of Virgil Abloh's show recalled the famous finale of the movie

Louis Vuitton's FW20 show has just ended. In the setting of the show there was an unexpected reference to the cult film "The Truman Show" starring Jim Carrey. To enter the catwalk, the models descended from a diagonal staircase of the same tint of the wall, which closely resembled the staircase from which Jim Carrey came out of the scene in the famous ending of the film going from a perfect but fake life to the real world. In his notes on the show, Abloh said:

“Tailoring and the tapered silhouette — the firm symbols of convention, trade, and success — depart their corporate comfort zone. Twisted and turned, the dress codes of an old-world are neutralized, re-appropriated, and embraced for a progressive joie de vivre. Don’t let your day job define you”.

A certain type of estrangement has also been used in the looks of the collection, in which the classic garments of the men's wardrobe have been deconstructed or subtly modified by unexpected layering, color gradients, crystal encrustation and unusual tailoring constructions. An important visual theme was the cloud-dotted blue sky, a backdrop loved by much surrealist painting and especially by Renè Magritte, which was also the theme of an entire section of looks, decorated with an all-over print similar to that of the show's setting.

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