Each x Other Sets Fire to the Louvre
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The Louvre’s art is on fire and everything’s fine. It’s the show for Each x Other, the fashion-and-art mashup that mixes installation pieces with $290 sweatshirts for maximum buzz in cool kid circles.
This time around, designers Ilan Delouis and Jenny Mannerheim enlisted frequent collaborator—and certified “art punk”—Robert Montgomery to build a giant flaming billboard that read All Palaces Are Temporary Palaces. They placed it smack in the middle of the Louvre palace’s courtyard, because: irony. And then they let it smolder.
As the flames licked the sky (and burned through Instagram’s fashion accounts), pleated camouflage skirts and patchwork denim jackets hit the runway, which was basically just the Louvre front lawn, but okay. There was some embellished leather. There were a few slouchy berets that evoked Che Guevara and / or Troop Beverly Hills.
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Pre-show, Mannerheim cited Marxist philosopher Guy Debord as her inspiration, and told French newspaper La Depeche, “we can always revolutionize fashion; we can always go forward.”
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Bringing art and AP philosophy references into the mix is a brilliant start. But citing a radical socialist like Monsieur Debord makes it tricky. In his best-known work, The Society of Spectacle, Debord claims that material things are ruining mankind. Does that include Each x Other’s killer catwalk pieces…or did something get lost in translation?
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