Glamour USA - September 2016

Fashion / Jane’s Style Diary
Five Things I Learned in
Rio
No, not at the Olympics—at the fashion
Olympics. Glamour’s Jane Keltner de
Valle reflects on the Louis
Vuitton show
that changed her style thinking.
1
That the beach can
meet the street
Athleisure is nothing new to
Cariocas (as Rio locals call
themselves), who have been mixing
beach and sport clothes with
city-chic pieces for years. “I love
that idea of sporty and sophisticated,”
Nicolas Ghesquière,
Louis Vuitton artistic director
of women’s collections, told me
after his show at the Niterói
Contemporary Art Museum,
below, a space-age building
designed by Brazilian architect
Oscar Niemeyer.
2jolt. Not only does color say, “Hi, I’m here!”
but it brightens your face and mood.
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That color is everything
As a native New Yorker, I tend toward hues
like black and navy, but the saturated, surfinspired
shades at Louis Vuitton, right, and
on the beaches of Ipanema (that’s me, above,
sipping coconut water) had me pining for a
con
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KELTNER DE VALLE: DEMIAN JACOB. AERIAL VIEW: JANE KELTNER DE VALLE. ART MUSEUM:
COURTESY OF LO UIS VUITTON. RUNWAY: LUCA TOMBOLINI/INDIGITAL.TV/VOG U ER U NWAY.COM