A surrealistic space in Barcelona is the perfect catwalk for Louis Vuitton's chameleon-like new looks, says Jessica Carroll By Jessica Carroll For You Magazine Published: 12:01, 15 June 2024 | Updated: 12:01, 15 June 2024 e-mail View comments It was, perhaps, appropriate that Gary Numan ’s ‘Music for Chameleons’ should be echoing around the columns of the Hypostyle Room in Barcelona’s Park Güell last month, as Louis Vuitton revealed its Cruise 2025 collection. A giant mosaic lizard guards the entrance to the space, conceived by Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudí as the marketplace for a planned estate of luxury homes. Construction stopped with the First World War and the site became a park.
Chameleon-like as ever, in May it transformed into a stage. The fashions on parade morphed similarly between styles and decades. Before an audience including Saoirse Ronan, Sophie Turner and Phoebe Dynevor , inverted triangle shapes evoked formal silhouettes from the 1980s while straw gaucho hats and jodhpurs gave off equine vibes.
Artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière cited Spanish painters Velázquez and Goya as influences on the collection. The chameleon approach is clearly working for Ghesquière – Louis Vuitton’s revenues grew by three per cent to £17.6 billion in the first quarter of the year.
One of the LVMH group’s most profitable brands, it was founded in 1854, three decades before Gaudí began work on the city’s Sagrada Familia. This basilica, wi.
