Louis Vuitton Men’s has released images from the FW 2023 collection, co-created by Colm Dillane [IG], aka Kid Super, and the Louis Vuitton Men’s studio design team.

Models include Abas Abdirazaq, Ahmadou Gueye, Dara Gueye, Indiana Van’t Slot, Mathieu Simoneau and Walid Fiher.

Marq Rise styled the shoot with images by Paul Kooiker [IG].

One item, in particular has become a bfd, the Louis Vuitton Camera Bag™️ and it’s gorgeous. It is both a bag and a camera — one that didn’t make production, writes Kid Super. But you can buy one custom-made.

Preparing to write these words, I scrolled my Apple News for any event connected to this post.

The Universe Dials In

You may or may not have read my recent post about American jazz musicians seeking refuge in the French Riviera — and not only to perform.

Miles Davis walked the beach near Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, where he mostly remained in solitude just recharging his soul and body.

A quick search is always part of my writing routine — and what what a gem Apple News dropped into my lap just now.

My personal reading is deep in the history of New Orleans and the 1811 slave revolt.

Sometimes I worry that I am too hard on America and give the French a free ride. Not tonight.

I will summarize the key points in this article from The Times of London, written August 2, 1923. It’s one of those “on this day 100 years ago articles from yesterday. And finish it off with Louis Vuitton Fall 2023 Mens images for dessert.

Pharrell would approve, loving Paris as much as I do. ~ Anne

French Reaction to Prejudice

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued the following statement for publication, published on August 2, 1923:

“Some foreign tourists, forgetting that they are our guests and that they, therefore, owe respect to our customs and our laws, have lately, on several occasions, violently shown their disapproval when they have found men of colour from French colonies sitting near them in public places. They have even gone so far as to demand their expulsion in insulting terms. If similar incidents recur measures of redress will be taken.”

The Racists in Paris Were White American Tourists

The foreign tourists not respecting French customs and laws were Americans. As tourists in Paris the Americans were involved in several incidents in which they expressed obvious resentment over the presence of of men of colour, often accompanied by white women, in restaurants and dancing rooms, and also in motor-coaches for sightseers.

Some Americans demanded that the police intervene, not thinking for one moment that they were the ones who could be arrested for causing a ruckus and polluting the French experience with their malignant racism.

Reports were made to the police, who on this day 100 years ago decided to just issue the general statement from above, as opposed to contacting the American consulate about the specific behaviors of American tourists in Paris.

Caribbean Deputies of Color Were More Direct with the Americans

Deputies for Reunion, Martinique, and other French Colonies, and M Georges Boussenot, the Deputy for Reunion, wrote a public appeal to Americans on the subject. Monsieur Boussenot summarized the situation in this way:

In France the “colour line” has never been drawn, and since the war the social standing of coloured natives of French Colonies has been distinctly raised. In excuse for conduct on the part of visitors which is a breach of the amenities of French life, the Americans have been said to be annoyed at finding negro emigrants of an undesirable class from the United States “flaunting” about Paris restaurants in company with white women.
Some of these men are ostensibly members of jazz bands in certain night cafes and dancing rooms in Montmartre. It is asserted by the tourists, however, that in many cases they are only nominally musicians and that they really pursue undesirable occupations, including that of cocaine dealing, which bring them into relationship with certain classes of women.
I understand that this explanation is being brought to the attention of the police authorities, and the charges may be investigated.