Even the stars had stars in their eyes at last week's Louis Vuitton Menswear 2016 Spring-Summer fashion show in Paris. The very talented, albeit slightly off-the-wall designer Kim Jones, (but, now what creative isn't?) presented a stand out collection in the presence of, among others, Kanye West, Zayn Malik, Joe Jonas, Jérémie Laheurte, Will Peltz, Marianne Faithfull, Jade Jagger, Hidetoshi Nakata, Luca Calvani, Boran Jing, Karen Elson, Haruma Miura, Mario Maurer, Russell Westbrook and Nile Rodgers.

What immediately stood out were the pieces that pleased the eye from afar: the vivid satin souvenir jackets with the embroidered cranes (Japan) and birds of paradise (Indonesia); the red silk Hawaiian shirt with the embroidered monkeys (China); the blouson with an embroidered stripe from a Southeast Asian hill tribe that, though ancient, looked utterly contemporary.

Kim said he was fascinated by the way ideas migrate, Japan's absorption of the language of American sportswear being his biggest case in point. But he does exactly the same kind of thing in his designs, filtering traditions of all kinds through his own pop sensibility. So it wasn't just the cheesy GI souvenir of an embroidered jacket that was transmogrified today. Jones also transformed a gas jockey's jacket and jeans by cutting them from indigo silk denim. And he created a new kind of pebble-dashed, hand-painted camo.

Additional copy and images courtesy of www.justluxe.com

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