Louis Vuitton paid tribute to Virgil Abloh, the male fashion director who died in November at the age of 41, presenting his latest collection in Paris, while continuing without knowing who will happen to him in front of the firm.

El 30 de noviembre, dos días después de la muerte del diseñador estadounidense a causa de un cáncer, tuvo lugar en Miami un vibrante desfile en el que participaron numerosas personalidades como Rihanna, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Bella Hadid, Pharrell Williams y la familia Arnault, propietaria del grupo LVMH.

Vuitton now continues the tribute to Obloh with the celebration in Paris, headquarters of the Maison, with two face -to -face fashion parades in which COVID standards will be followed and the public can sit in one in two seats to respect the security distance.

The collection, whose sample is scheduled for Thursday at 2.30 pm, he was "ready at 95 percent" before the death of Virgil Obloh, said Louis Vuitton's general director Michael Burke, in an interview with the American platform WWD.

"Honor the legacy"

Possibly this is the reason why the company has not yet communicated anything about the succession, opening the way to all kinds of speculation.

"It is an election that will require boldness as was Virgil's choice," analyzes Serge Carreira, professor of Sciences Po, interviewed by AFP."There is a dynamic of virgil pop that is still there, there is no urgency to find a successor".

The only black designer to occupy a position of this level in a luxury maison, in addition to Olivier Rousteing in Balmain, this multidisciplinary, architect and DJ "has embodied a new way of understanding the fashion that also includes culture, society, the greatmovements and a combination of everything, "says Serge Carreira.

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Author of multiple collaborations ranging from Nike to Evian and Ikea, going through exhibitions with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, "he took less elitist references and with an expression field that really spoke to very broad categories," he adds.

"Virgil showed how to be multidisciplinary and not be afraid of creating what one wants.It was really powerful.That is why he had the impact he had on the life of so many people, "Bianca Saunders, a London designer of Afro -Caribbean roots that debuted Wednesday with his parade at the Paris Fashion Week.He is looking forward to attending Vuitton's parade to "honor Virgil's legacy"."It was a very nice person".

The choice of the successor, will have to respect the legacy of Obloh that denounced racism and had campaigned for an inclusive society since its first parade for Vuitton in Paris in 2018, entitled "We Are The World", where the models paraded with an arciris for the gardens of the Palais Royal.

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Among the potential black candidates that could happen, their former collaborators Samuel Ross and Heron Preston, the artistic director of Reebok, Kerby Jean-Raymond, the British fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner and even rapper and designer Kanye West, friend, friend, friend, friendof operah.

The names of the "unemployed" designers Kris van Assche are also mentioned after their departure from Berluti and Daniel Lee, which left Bottega Veneta, but also Riccardo Tisci (Burberry, former ex-givenchy).

"Virgil Obloh was a figure of diversity, of promoting the talent of color designers.It is a symbolic issue, but the matter concerns the fashion industry as a whole, rather than Vuitton in particular, "says Serge Carreira.

En otro fuerte homenaje al diseñador, Louis Vuitton se ha asociado con Sotheby's para subastar 200 pares de zapatillas Louis Vuitton y Nike "Air Force 1" diseñadas por Virgil Abloh por un mínimo de 2.000 dollars.

The collection will go to its postmodern foundation, a scholarship that supports the education of promising students of African -American and African ancestry.(AFP)

This article was originally published in FashionUnited.FR, and subsequently translated from French to Spanish and edited by Alicia Reyes Sarmiento.