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Louis Vuitton’s Fashion Robots

Looking at the Louis Vuitton F/W campaign video, it’s impossible not to see a sea of fashion robots. Indeed, it’s the femme who is snapping her fingers, but a robotic vision permeates the film.

Louis Vuitton - Prêt-à-Porters from John Wright on Vimeo.

Louis Vuitton Tribute to Muhammad Ali

What a contrast from the message of Louis Vuitton’s tribute to The Greatest - Muhammad Ali! Listening up with hip-hop artist Yasiin Bey and calligraphist Niels Shoe Meulman paying tribute to the great Muhammad Ali, I can’t help but think of president Obama this morning.

NOT VOGUE

We don’t hear so much ‘dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee’ spirit and passion these days — and certainly not from the mouths of women. For many of us fashion has become a religion, an idea I refer to often in essays.

Meet NOT VOGUE, a visually-rich blog brimming with fashion commentary and quick bits zingers like MENTHOL WARS TRACK 1 MASTER MORALITY ABSORBS SLAVE MORALITY headlining the Louis Vuitton fall campaign shot above.

Bullett writes about NOT VOGUE:

It takes an awareness of both the world of high fashion and of anti-capitalist and deconstructivist theory to get NOT VOGUE. It’s not the theory that surprises so much as it is the depth of NOT VOGUE’s knowledge of fashion. They are versed. Best guess is that they are in it. Most radical intellectuals leave fashion alone, leave it for the masses. NOT VOGUE seems to actually care about fashion, and about the masses.

Like Anne of Carversville, NOT VOGUE isn’t anti-fashion, it’s anti-fashion institution. We are inspired:

Lead With Intellect. DO NOT

Be a Fashion Robot

Seriously, who does he think he is? The Pope?