Louis Vuitton SS19: Abloh's street chic rainbow

It's over.

Virgil Abloh runs the long rainbow runway in the Tuileries garden, where he made his debut as a creative director for Louis Vuitton, approaching Kany West, who accompanied his wife Kim on the show, and hugs him.

In that long hug, which led to both friends in a joyful cry, there is everything: pride, fatigue, hard work, the satisfaction of being the first African American to run a fashion house of luxury colossus LVMH.

And the collection for the next SS19 also speaks of pride and multiculturalism.

The show opens, under the sky of a sunny Paris, with 20 models dressed in white, an array among which it is easy to recognize Blondey McCoy, the artist Lucien Smith and the musicians Dev Hynes, Kid Cudi.

The total white leaves room for fluo details, which gradually turn into a cast of color, from beige to green, from blue to red, before exploding in the final in a whirl of colors and prints.

The crêpe de Chine shirts finished with oversized cuffs and cut-away corner collars, wide pants with tie-dye tie-downs, jackets, saharians and a rain of a new class of garments which Abloh called "acessamorphosis, consisting of shoulder bags, jackets and shoulder holster, are brushstrokes that color a powerful white canvas.

White canvas that is also synonymous with a new beginning, of redemption, on which "a global vision of diversity linked to the DNA of the brand's journey" begins to take shape.

Applause for Virgil.