Sweet tea, black panther and Wu Yifan are wearing the LV men's vest will be the next explosion?

You may have seen this latest menswear item in a lot of places: an H-shaped leather vest worn outside a shirt or suit, a bit like a parachute strap, and a bit like a harness on a horse.

This is the accessories designed by the tide brand Off-white and Louis Vuitton menswear director Virgil Abloh for the Louis Vuitton 2019 men's spring/summer collection. Now it has been worn by many stars to the awards ceremony or brand event.

In China, many people saw this vest for the first time at the opening ceremony of the LV Shanghai “Flight, Sailing, Travel” exhibition. LV spokesperson Wu Yifan wore the LV 2019 spring and summer men's clothing, purple shirt with leather. The shape of the vest attracted a lot of attention. After that, Wu Yifan, who is the LV brand spokesperson, made many appearances in similar styles. For example, he wore white shirts, black pants and leather vests during the Paris Fashion Week show as a tribute to the popular superstar Michael Jackson.

American actor "Sweet Tea" Timothée Chalamet, American actor Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman, who played "Black Panther", recently also appeared at the awards ceremony with "vest". The sweet tea vest is the finishing touch in the all-black style; Jordan's printed vest breaks the original solemnity of the suit and looks very relaxed; Boseman's white vest makes the overall white suit look more interesting. .

Of course, Abloh himself often wears this vest. His common collocation is to wear a T-shirt under the vest, which is more casual.

Netizens actually have a very bipolar attitude towards the vest that suddenly has a burst of sensation. Many people praised the black vest of sweet tea, but the printed vest worn by Jordan was not so lucky. Twitter user @EmmaSpecter questioned, "Is this not a sports underwear?" There are people who are all about the entire LV vest series. No cold, Twitter user @yosoymichael said, "Before everything is too late, someone must stop Virgil Abloh."

How is this controversial vest designed? According to the LV public relations team, this item is actually derived from the bib, but everyone still calls it harness/harness because In the history of fashion, people are called similar styles.

This vest is far from being as simple as it seems. In addition to the parachute strap, it is often used as a type of S&M appliance. Before entering the fashion circle, the LGBTQ crowd was the main user of this type of men's vest. Prior to Abloh, designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Helmut Lang, Alexander McQueen, and Rick Owens also incorporated similar straps and vests into their designs. The original inspiration for these collections came from S&M.

For this reason, even though Abloh did not explicitly explain the design inspiration of this vest, it can convey a taboo and dangerous atmosphere.

Abloh has always had the ability to bring in goods. The first series he designed for LV sells faster than the joint series of LV and Supreme. Now that the men's vest has been brought back to the public's field of vision, people have vaguely smelled the explosives.