Colouring The World

Artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s men’s collection, Virgil Abloh continues his vision of surging — rising up, uprising and progressing — with the spring/ summer ’21 collection.

- Wilson Lim

Regardless of what naysayers think, fashion has existed as a means to document the sentiments of an era — legendary designers setting up storied Maisons to challenge the status quo on dressing in their societies then — and today’s creatives are continuing the same work. One of the good people is Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Collection artistic director, Virgil Abloh who caused a fashion tremor upon his joining as he was one of the few black creatives to sit atop a French heritage house. Since then, he has shaped fashion democracy towards diversity and inclusivity by diversifying his cast both on the runways and at the atelier, and paying homage to other cultures in his collections.

For Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer ’21, Abloh continues these amplifications. While other fashion houses were presenting their Spring/ Summer ’21 collections in novel manners due to quarantine measures from the COVID-19 pandemic, Abloh decided that the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer ’21 collection would be showcased to an audience who would watch it in person — halfway around the world away from its founding home of Paris.