VUITTON PALACE OF THE POPES

Life may be a grand performance, as the saying goes, and Nicolas Ghesquière seems to have designed the wardrobe for its boldest scenes. His newest Louis Vuitton cruise collection bursts with flair opulent, audacious, and vibrantly dramatic.

For the occasion, Ghesquière and the Vuitton team transported the fashion world to Avignon’s storied Palais des Papes. The site’s towering Gothic presence served as a powerful backdrop, echoing the collection’s chivalric spirit think embellished tunics, rakish cloaks, and liquid-metallic dresses reminiscent of modern-day heroines.

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VUITTON RAILWAY STATION NOVEL

Louis Vuitton presents its major autumn-winter show, and watch out, hold on to your suitcases: this season, Nicolas Ghesquière takes us on a stylistic journey on a station platform, where surrealism meets the bar car.

Just imagine the SNCF announcement: ‘Attention departure, train bound for Fashion Week, serving all the stops for good taste, WTF and sartorial audacity’. On the platform, a colourful crowd crowds: a yoga teacher in an asymmetric leotard, a private detective in a fluorescent trench coat, a chic camper in a designer bivouac blanket and, yes, that model over there plays the ukulele like Marilyn Monroe in ‘Some Like It Hot’. This is the magic of Vuitton: a melting pot of characters who could just as easily have stepped off the Trans-Siberian Railway as out of an Agatha Christie film. Continue reading