The Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2022 Collection is inspired by The Amen Break, a characteristic of a discourse central to the work of Virgil Abloh, the Men’s Artistic Director of the brand. Zooming in and out on archetypes and subcultures, the collection highlights the collective while re-contextualizing a chapter in the Black Canon’s preservation and teaching of Black art history.
If we traced the beats of a thousand hits back to a same singular drum solo, that drum solo would be the Amen Break. A drum solo that went on to underpin the foundation of the radical hip-hop and jungle genres, and splinter into thousands of the pop, rock and metal tracks most familiar to us today. Applied to fashion, the Amen Break becomes a metaphor for the myth of ownership in contemporary creativity.
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