Louis Vuitton pays homage to fashion’s ‘Amazing Grace’
For Cruise 2019, Louis Vuitton shakes up its codes and honours legendary stylist Grace Coddington with eccentric looks
Fashion giant Louis Vuitton bent the knee to legendary Vogue stylist Grace Coddington in a show in rural Provence paying tribute to her daring through the decades.
The Welsh-born creative director at large for American Vogue magazine is credited with creating some of fashion’s “most memorable imagery” and is known as “Amazing Grace” to her many fans.
Vuitton designer Nicolas Ghesquiere even sent several red-haired models weaving down a catwalk between Miro sculptures at the Maeght Foundation art gallery and gardens on Monday in a nod to Coddington’s own trademark mane.
The 77-year-old was the long-time right hand woman of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and the star of an acclaimed 2009 documentary about the iconic magazine, The September Issue.
Ghesquiere, who has just renewed his contract with fashion’s richest luxury brand, said he wanted to celebrate Coddington’s unique eye, and the way she juxtaposes clothes and designs no one else would dare to.
“Eccentricity is to define your own personality and to mix things in a unique way,” he said. “For me, Grace with her very strong style represents a kind of eccentricity.”
The designer tried to recreate that glorious individuality in 59 looks which covered her time as model in the London of the swinging ’60s right up to the present.