Years ago, it used to be that precollection, an ‘in between’ collection that leads up to main collections, are a mere afterthought. But not anymore. Such is the case with Virgil Abloh’s Fall/Winter 2019 Pre-Collection. The result is a capsule collection sufficient to overhaul a modern man’s wardrobe.
LOUIS VUITTON MEN’S COLLECTION BY VIRGIL ABLOH–FALL/WINTER 2019 PRE-COLLECTION
A first of its kind for the heritage brand, Louis Vuitton men’s artistic director Virgil Abloh challenges the notion of trendless, timeless, and effortless garments and accessories. For the Fall/Winter 2019 Pre-Collection, the designers presented a futuristic leitmotif of boyhood. It debuted a three-dimensional extrusion technique across outerwear, tailoring, and harnessing. Accessomorphosis, a portmanteau for morphing garments with bags, as well as compressomorphosis, a term for garments accessorized with wrapper bags into which…