Louis Vuitton is the next luxury brand leveraging the power of K-pop. The French fashion house won its biggest online audience yet for a men’s fashion show, thanks to a teaser campaign by South Korean boy band BTS.
The video for its fall 2021 collection, which explored themes of racial identity and cultural appropriation, has been viewed more than 105 million time since it was unveiled on Jan. 21, surpassing the number of views for its spring 2021 show in Shanghai last year, the brand said Friday.
The top platform was Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, which garnered close to 35 million views. On Western platforms, Twitter was the leader with 17 million views, closely followed by YouTube, which saw interest soar thanks to the advance posts by BTS on Instagram and Twitter.
By Jan. 26, the platform had garnered a total of 916,000 views of the video, nine times the amount for the fall 2020 show, and Louis Vuitton’s YouTube page recruited 200,000 followers in a day.
The brand said its social media accounts saw 130,000 engagements per post on average, 10 percent higher than average, and the engagement is growing show after show for its men’s collections. Its most popular video on TikTok was viewed more than 12 million times.
“BTS fans spotted the looks worn by the band and posted them online, creating a huge increase in traffic and demand on our website,” Vuitton reported.
Virgil Abloh, the controversial designer seemed to pour his heart and soul into the Louis Vuitton fall 2021 menswear collection he debuted on Thursday morning. It should come as no surprise, then, that it may be his most divisive yet.
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On the one hand, Abloh nailed the themes of diversity, inclusivity, and unconscious biases, symbolized by 70 models who embodied different archetypes. The cast, which was almost entirely nonwhite, included rapper Yasiin Bey (better known by his stage name Mos Def) and British poet Kai-Isaiah Jamal, who is now the first Black transgender model to walk for Louis Vuitton.
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