Daria Strokous & Kati Nescher photographed by Steven Meisel for Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2012 Ad Campaign:
Honestly, this is something that i think is so funny. Gay men love women. What it means to be feminine, fleeting, whimsical. They understand women, and leave it to one of the greatest gays to sing to the loveliness of the girl-woman!
Marc Jacobs’ Louis Vuitton Spring Summer line was debuted on a ring a round carousel of pretty; telling, I suppose, of the fashion world itself. This has been happening lately, this hyperbolic depiction of femininity–think back to Prada, Rodarte, Marchesa, even Victor & Rolf, severe as they are, have been drifting towards super sweet girly. This time, Louis Vuitton has eyelet, pastel pinks, purples, yellow, blues and greens… billowing bouffant skirts, big buttons, fun collars and delightfully stunning heels to match.
Sometimes I wonder, how can you not love this world? Charming as it is, it reinvents the various archetypical depictions we hold truest of the feminine spirit. It changes every season, even within the season, the various garbs speak to varying strings within this spirit. It is something that’s constantly reinvented; so many creative minds work season after season to keep doing it, to keep trying to achieve the highest truth of this depiction. I shouldn’t even just say feminine as the masculine bleeds in, and while it looks like the feminine depiction of the spirit, is it just that? Does it have to have a sexual orientation? Is that even really that important?
I think it might be more. Collectively, all who contribute, come together every season to try and achieve an honest representation of the Spirit that at once challenges and embraces the connotations of it’s limitation.
But maybe I’m over thinking it.
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