Virgil Abloh's Don'ts at Louis Vuitton Menswear
While Frear of God and Essentials' Jerry Lorenzo seems to be a good candidate, the speculation surrounding the new Creative Director of Louis Vuitton Menswear has not cooled down.
The story of "heirs" is always an interesting topic anywhere, whether you are watching a TV series, a dramatic player buying and selling of the sports world, or successor of a fashion brand.
However, it seems that Louis Vuitton's Virgil Abloh is one of the most difficult cases to solve. This designer is an individual who can be versatile in many roles from architect, to fashion designer to DJ, marketing and even business. Not to mention Virgil Abloh is a name that is too famous for the majority. At the present time, after so much speculation, perhaps thinking about individuals who should NOT sit in the position of creative director of men's fashion of Louis Vuitton is the msot interesting topic. In this article, L'OFFICIEL will "boldly nominate" two names that we do not expect to see the most in the next announcement of LVMH.
Ye
Ye is the name that has been mentioned the most since the talk about the successor to Virgil Abloh spread across social networking sites. This male rapper was famous for being Virgil's aesthetic consultant even before we became familiar with the name Virgil Abloh as a designer. This is also the creator of the hottest trends with Nike, Yeezy, Adidas, Balenciaga and now GAP.
However, the most discerning editors at Highsnobiety assert that "certainly an indivitual who has not kept his eye on both Ye and Louis Vuitoon would seriously consider the possiblity of teh reapper becoming Creative Director suffucient." Can a prestigious corporation, run by a secretive family like LVMH, hand over their top brand to an artist whose private life, statements and crontroversial actions? Not to mention psychologicaln illness is one of the biggest obsticles for Ye. This is also the reasonw hy this rapper sometimes acts out of control, "unruly and strange"
Even if LVMH takes personal risks, will Ye's creative process match its tight fashion schedule, guaranteed sales numbers and consecutive appearences? You will have your own answer when looking at the extremely sparse return of Yeezy Ready-To-Wear collections.
Daniel Lee
"What is Daniel Lee's next plan?." This is probably the question most fashionistas are waiting for when former Creartive Director of Bottega Veneta has left for the brand in an extremely "mysterious" way. Daniel Lee has no other job, this designer's tnure at Bottega is extremely popular, Daniel's mentor: Phoebe Philo is one of the LVMH's longitme friends. And taking power in the Louis Vuitton Menswear apparatus would be Daniel's perfect "revenge" to Kering Group (Bottega Veneta's parent company), and ingeniously, Kering is alsso a direct competitor of LVMH.
Howevr, is an individual's denial of all forms of self-exposure, from the press, to Instagram, Twitter and any other popular social networking site like Daniel Lee really suitable leader? a famous Virgirl on every platform? Bottega Veneta deletes its brand Instagram page at the moment is it most active, while Off-White and Louis Vuitton are making the most of the resources from Instagram and Youtube.
