When Louis Vuitton unveiled its latest menswear collection, fashion felt normal for the first time in months: Models walked the runway in front of a chic audience, attendees cooled off with paper fans in between air kisses, and a surprise guest star-Lauryn Hill-serenaded the crowd. Well, almost normal. The show was held in August, weeks before the standard time for next year's spring-summer collection. It was also in Shanghai, thousands of miles from Paris, the typical location. Virgil Abloh, the designer, couldn't make it to his own show because of travel restrictions between the U.S. and China. "What we've learned through this year is that there's subtle things that need to change about how we interface with the customer and interface with the world," Abloh says a week after the show from his home outside Chicago, where he's spent the past several months running his creative teams in Paris and Milan.
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