Titled Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light, Virgil Abloh's Fall/Winter 2021 runway show for Louis Vuitton began with a frosty film, with models ice-skating from a tundra into an Instagram-friendly indoor ambiance and wearing tailored-made clothes ready for tourism with performances by Mos Def and Saul Williams.

<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/louis-vuitton-fall-2020-mens-runway-show">Virgil Abloh</a> staged his Fall/Winter 2021 Men&#39;s runway show for <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/shopping-trends-louis-vuitton-monogram-handbags">Louis Vuitton</a> in two scenes.

First, a wintery wonderland with a god-like voice narrating scenic views of a snow-y mountainscape.&nbsp;Abloh&#39;s protagonist for the season? A lone man (the singer/songwriter <a href="http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2020/sep/24/saul-williams-talks-new-film-akillas-escape/">Saul Williams</a>) with an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/bags-inside-out-victoria-and-albert-fendi-hermes">LV silver trunk</a> in search of purity.&nbsp;Suddenly, the location changes, and a troupe of models in perfect synchronicity ice-skate into a new set: a modernist scene at Tennis Club de Paris today in Paris.&nbsp;The juxtaposition of the two was apparently influenced by <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/iconic-fashion-tributes-to-lgbtq-culture">James Baldwin</a>&rsquo;s essay Stranger in the Village from 1953, which parallels between the writer&#39;s experiences as an African-American man in a Swiss village and his life in America as well as the idea of being a Black artist in a world of art created from a white European perspective.

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Beside a plethora&nbsp;of leather-covered chairs by <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/travel-living/harry-nuriev-instagram-interior-design-trends-2021">Mies van der Rohe</a>&mdash;often a reference for the <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/art/virgil-abloh-to-have-first-solo-exhibition">Off-White founder</a>&mdash;and &#39;70s green marble walls, Williams opened the runway show in his frozen tundra outfit, a black overcoat decorated by plane-buttons and what appears to be a passport peeking out of his pocket. The rest of the collection that followed seemed to continue&nbsp;this desire for escape, likely the result of a year spent in confine as well as a nod to the house&#39;s travel history. For Abloh&#39;s intention, though, the themes are meant to create the duality&nbsp;of the &quot;tourist,&quot; versus the &quot;purist,&quot; a described term &quot;for the outsider, who watches and aspires towards a domain of knowledge such as the worlds of art, fashion, architecture etc.&quot;

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Throughout the collection other models, with their ice skates off and LV leather shoes on, showed sharp-fitted suits&nbsp;and smart, tech-made sportswear. Later, a pure forest green was introduced as a key-color story, decorating &#39;70s-esque leather bags, chunky knits, and varsity-style jackets as well as bandanas and durags. Technicolor and monogram-colored plaid and clear-coating made cameos, too. In addition to LV leather goods, outfits were accessorized with objects of travel and tourism, from crunched-up coffee cups to half-read newspapers, while one spectacular jumper was dotted with landmark buildings from Paris and another from New York.

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The show, a series of performances within a performance, concluded with a number by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/mos-def-yasiin-bey-retirement-apollo-rap-rick-owen">Yasiin Bey</a>,&nbsp;known previously as Mos Def.

Models Ice-skated into Louis Vuitton's Fall/Winter 2021 Men's Show

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