The wearable cities of Louis Vuitton FW21 collection A new and very literal definition of "urban clothing"

Today, with the Louis Vuitton show for the FW21 collection, Virgil Abloh has produced one of the most successful collections of his career. Drawing inspiration from the themes of identity and travel, the American designer elaborated his concept in the form of various stylistic solutions such as invitations to the show, embroidery and buttons in the shape of an aeroplane; and the inscription Tourist appeared on bags and suitcases. But the two elements that most caught the public's eye were two outerwear pieces that reproduce the Paris and New York skylines and a curious monogrammed leather aeroplane-shaped bag. 

Finally, the oversized, aeroplane-shaped bag, officially called Airplane-Keepall, visually recalls not only the actual aircraft but also the paper plane – one of those un-designed objects that Abloh talks about in his notes to the show that symbolically encloses the meaning of childhood. This type of object (such as pencils, staples or, indeed, paper aeroplanes) interest Abloh in that they challenge the very concept of authorship: being devoid of an intellectual owner or provenance, they are not only democratic and universal by nature, but become a blank canvas on which to apply the famous "3% principle" of Abloh, which argues that you only need to change 3% of the design of a common object to make it extraordinary.