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Louche retro tailoring and unusual fusions revealed in collection excelling in premium version of everyday items
Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersIf collaboration with Indian creatives gave voice to the culture that provided inspiration to a collection by a European megabrand, there were also some slightly more reductive tropes, as with the embroidered exotic animals. These made use of imagery originally created by Louis Vuitton in 2007 for Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, a film set in India but remaining, as the critic Ellen E Jones wrote last year, a “whimsically white nostalgia-world”. His skateboarding past is evident in the fact that the skater Tyshawn Jones is a Louis Vuitton ambassador and the brand’s new Tilted trainer is being compared to classic Vans.
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