Louis Vuitton jackets for the urban landscape dress you with 3D urban architecture

If you can wear your heart on your sleeve, why not the city of Paris?

Puffer jackets with detailed 3D cityscapes made an appearance on Thursday at a Paris fashion show broadcast live, featuring designer Louis Vuitton’s 2021 fall-winter collection. The jackets are part fashion, part architecture and really inappropriate parts to use in crowded subways.

Virgil Abloh, artistic director of the Louis Vuitton men’s clothing collection, designed two of these “wearable miniature urban landscapes”.

One, the “Paris Skyline Puffer”, dresses the wearer with French landmarks, including the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower (which makes the shoulder a rather high shoulder). The “New York City Skyline Puffer” features skyscrapers from New York and other cities, including the John Hancock Center in Abloh’s hometown, Chicago.

“With his new Louis Vuitton collection, Virgil Abloh employs fashion as a tool to change predetermined perceptions of dress codes,” says the brand.

The elaborately choreographed and staged multidisciplinary show mixes fashion, poetry, movement and music. It took place at the Tennis Club de Paris against a modernist setting inspired by the Barcelona Pavilion, which served as the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, live viewers were unable to attend. You can, however, watch a movie from the show, entitled Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light, and dream of a day when you can go to places beyond your living room in chic clothes. Here it is: