Wednesday, October 3 Louis Vuitton
Designer: Marc Jacobs

• “A look fed by conceptual art and the house’s 125-year-old damier motif … was a clean break with the French house’s recent lyrical outings that have featured a life-sized train or a twirling carousel.” {AFP}
• “Visual splendor in motion.” {All The Rage/Los Angeles Times}
• “What do you get if you mix up the world’s most famous checks and Paris’ most famous stripes? The answer: Louis Vuitton.” {The Associated Press}
• “It was a magical and embracing reminder that fashion at this level is ultimately not about fabric and embellishment, but about how it makes us feel.” {The Daily Beast/Newsweek}
• “It’s a mod, mod world! Marc Jacobs ended PFW succinctly and brilliantly with a check-heavy, stripe-ridden collection that was as concise as it was imaginative.” {Daily Front Row}
• “A prim but cool show.” {Fashion Wire Daily}
• “Checkmate.” {fashionologie}
• “The ultimate manifestation of symmetry.” {Grazia Daily Magazine}
• “How to follow last season’s epic Louis Vuitton show, a lavish 15-minute theatre piece in which a real steam train, in bespoke Louis Vuitton livery for the occasion, carried a phalanx of models to a catwalk in the shadow of the Louvre? Jacobs’s answer was to wipe the slate clean.” {The Guardian}
• “Marc Jacobs took his audience to a futuristic fashion paradise on the closing day of the Paris collections–or to the world’s most heavenly departure lounge at least.” {The Independent}
• “The Louis Vuitton show hit its graphic target on Wednesday, marking a sparky and spectacular moment on the last day of the monthlong international season.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Although some of the linear ’60s shapes resembled his collection in New York, with more strictness and color, the idea of duplication was fascinating.” {The New York Times}
• “If it seems repetitive, it was–but only in the most genius way possible.” {Refinery29}
• “Fresh, mod, confident.” {Speakeasy/The Wall Street Journal}
• “Pop! Paris fashion week finished this morning with a six-minute Louis Vuitton show as energizing as it was brief.” {Style.com}
• “Simplistic as the fashion was—for ultimately, there’s not much for a designer to do with a graphic minidress or two-piece skirt suit—the sheer overwhelming scale of the spectacle, its extravagance and sweet cheerfulness ended the spring-summer show cycle on an up note.” {Vogue.com}
• “It was all simple, no fuss, elegant and Sixties sleek.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “Dear France, such intricacy doesn’t come cheap. Yet it has such great power to please, not only the over-it fashion crowd but rich ladies around the world, too. Therefore, please don’t take all of Mr. Arnault’s money away. Respectfully, WWD.” {WWD}