Kim Jones is leaving Louis Vuitton
A GALAXY of celebrities rose to their feet to cheer British designer Kim Jones as he presented his last show for Louis Vuitton at Paris men’s fashion week.
Supermodels Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss walked out hand-inhand with the 38-year-old creator to acknowledge the cheers of fashionistas and front row stars that included the Beckham family and the world’s most expensive footballer, Brazilian striker Neymar.
Jones went out with a butch and swashbucklingly adventurous collection, full of happy people kitted up to take on anything the great outdoors could throw at them.
These were clothes very much in his own image as a debonnaire globetrotter with a killer sense for streetwear.
The titanium python leather hiking boots his models wore set the tone for a line of unapologetically luxurious and dramatic clothes made from the most expensive of skins and fabrics.
Jones’ colour palette was natural and neutral – olive, sandstone, granite and slate. But everything items made with 3D U-Knit threedimensional weaving technique proved incredibly popular, employing Wholegarment technology to enhance fit and comfort. The new range enhances the look and feel by adopting high twist cotton fabric in two new women's items: one is the 3D Ribbed Balloon Sweater, with distinctive cuff and waist styling, and the other is the 3D Crew Neck Balloon Dress, whose fit and flare silhouette enhances femininity. Later in the Spring/Summer 2018 season, UNIQLO plans to launch six new swimwear items that minimise seams to enhance comfort. They include a bandeau bikini with removable straps, a halter neck bikini for freer movement, and a bicolour bikini. had the insouciant sheen of money: mink, mohair, crocodile skin bags and belts with cashmere and vicuna sweaters for climbing the highest mountains.
“It’s all about clothes than can change, about fabrics that can travel on the body and transform,” he said of the show, which he set amid giant photographs of Kenya’s landscape taken from a helicopter.
For his monied and privileged clientele, life was a “constant voy- age” of discovery.
Jones announced that he was leaving Louis Vuitton after seven years in which he steered eye-catching and lucrative collaborations with New York streetwear brand Supreme and the iconoclastic British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman.
As one of the few big-name designers who can straddle the luxury and streetwear worlds, rumours are rife than he is being courted by Italian brand Versace to take over its menswear. – AFP Relaxnews