.LouisVuitton CEO broached the delicate topic of choosing Virgil Abloh's successor, as the French luxury behemoth prepared to unveil the late designer's last collection in Paris.
For the set of the fall collection, simply titled “8,” expect a sprinkling of “Wizard of Oz” references and elements of Surrealism, in line with his previous seven collections. “He never wanted a show or a season to be monolithic in its existence. It had to be connected, in obvious and non-obvious ways, to what preceded it and what comes after,” said Burke.After an afternoon show for press and influencers, the early evening display will be an opportunity for friends and family to come together.
“The world is our playground. There are no geographic, no gender, no sexual orientation limitations, no age limitations. I’ve seen people at 30 that are more mature than people at 60, so it’s about your mental age, not your physical age,” Burke said of the potential candidates. “This is what the person is going to have to deal with,” Burke said gravely. “When you come to Louis Vuitton, the responsibility is immense vis-à-vis the past, vis-à-vis the cultural values that exist here.”Olivier Pilcher/Courtesy of Louis Vuitton“We make our watches, we make our jewelry, we make our handbags, we make our leather, and these are constraints. If you embrace those constraints, you will be very, very successful.
“This individual needs to appreciate the tension between what you can change and what you can’t change,” he added. “And this is where somebody that has maybe more wide-ranging passions may have an advantage, than somebody that is more narrowly focused on fashion.” “There’s two ways of coming to a luxury house: embrace your predecessors or start with a clean slate. And both work, but they’re very different approaches. At a house by Louis Vuitton, we need the former,” he explained.
“You can’t come in swashbuckling, trying to impose change. The Vuitton teams are very, very proud. They’re probably the most stable and loyal and hardworking and successful teams in this business in the world,” he argued. “There’s a certain amount of gravitas. This is not fluffy, it’s a very, very serious business.”
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