{"id":22814,"date":"2022-05-16T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=214265"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:57:53","slug":"louis-vuitton-cruise-2023-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/louis-vuitton-cruise-2023-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Vuitton Takes Over San Diego With A Post-Apocalyptic Cruise Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cruise 2023 Fashion Show | LOUIS VUITTON\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qu3fySrXLpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There was a special guest star at <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/louis-vuitton-fall-winter-2022\/\">Louis Vuitton<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/search\/?search=cruise+2023\">Cruise \u201923 extravaganza<\/a>, which took place in San Diego, California, over the weekend. It wasn\u2019t Samara Weaving, Gemma Chan, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/search\/?search=Phoebe+Dynevor\">Phoebe Dynevor<\/a>, or L\u00e8a Seydoux, although all were in attendance. It was the sun. Staged at the Salk\u2019s Institute, a Louis Khan-design Brutalist masterpiece that houses some of the world\u2019s most important medical researchers, the show was perfectly timed so that guests watched the sun set moments before the opening look was presented.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As with all things creative director <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/search\/?search=nicolas+ghesquiere\">Nicolas Ghesqui\u00e8re<\/a> does, it was precise and intentional. \u201cIt\u2019s as if the sun had found its frame,\u201d Ghesqui\u00e8re told press after the show. \u201cIt plays with the building&#8217;s perspective and its rays culminate in the linear fountainhead, the vanishing point where the water seems to turn to liquid gold. When I saw its strange harmony, everything clicked.\u201d Salk\u2019s was a fitting location for the first Louis Vuitton Cruise show to be held with guests since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. \u201cIt celebrates intelligence, knowledge and the belief in the power of science,\u201d\u00a0explained Ghesqui\u00e8re. It also evokes a <i>Dune<\/i>-like post-apocalyptic dreamscape, which inevitably wove its way into the entire collection.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">From the opening looks\u2014draped gowns made with heavy jacquard, finished in shimmering details that evoked molten metals\u2014through to fighter-chic ensembles made of low-slung harem pants and cross-body silver and gold harness shirts and the closing trio of shrunken jackets with mega-oversized shoulder details, every piece evoked a potent mix of heady futurism and a clear reverence for the archive silhouettes and motifs that make up Louis Vuitton\u2019s past.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since he began his tenure at Vuitton in 2015, Ghesqui\u00e8re has staged extravagant Cruise shows at iconic architectural spaces around the world, from the Miho Museum in Kyoto to the TWA Flight Centre at JFK airport. Even against those unforgettable backdrops, today\u2019s collection felt particularly special. Perhaps it\u2019s because the Salk\u2019s Institute is a working medical centre, meaning the French maison was granted unprecedented access by staging a runway show there. Or perhaps it was because Ghesqui\u00e8re is a designer who can so deftly distill the anxieties, fears, hopes, and dreams of our time into clothing. One things for sure, the sunset over San Diego never looked quite as beautiful as it did on Friday night.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214267\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214267\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/look0001.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Vuitton Cruise 2023\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214268\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214268\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/look0004.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Vuitton Cruise 2023\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214269\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214269\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/look0022.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Vuitton Cruise 2023\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214270\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214270\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/look0055.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Vuitton Cruise 2023\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26240,"featured_media":22816,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[65,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Louis Vuitton Takes Over San Diego With A Post-Apocalyptic Cruise Extravaganza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquiere took over the Salk&#039;s Institute in San Diego for the brand&#039;s Cruise 2023 show, a spectacular post-apocalyptic runway event with &#039;Dune&#039; undertones.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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