Nicolas Ghesquière, Poster Boy for Fashion-Against-Trump

Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton women’s wear and one of the designer jewels in the LVMH crown, has spoken out — or posted anyway — to dissociate himself with his company’s new association with President Trump.

A brief recap: Last Thursday afternoon, Mr. Trump cut the ribbon on a spanking-new Louis Vuitton workshop facility in Johnson County, Texas. It was an anomalous gathering of formerly autonomous beings (Mr. Trump, Bernard Arnault, cows) that created such a startling picture that it had outsize repercussions — and set off all sorts of debates over the question of brands and their responsibilities toward certain moral standards.

Though Mr. Arnault said the decision to have the president appear was apolitical — he offered! we were flattered! it’s about jobs! — it is increasingly clear that for many, the fact that Vuitton allowed itself to be a part of the president’s mythmaking was, well, collusion.

On Sunday, he made a post on Instagram featuring a photo of the cover of a single called “High Energy,” the 1984 disco song by Evelyn Thomas that is featured in the SoBe Music compilation album “Gay Classics, Volume 1: Ridin’ the Rainbow.”

Source: The New York Times

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