PARIS (AP) — Louis Vuitton ‘s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it.
On Tuesday he closed out a starry Paris Fashion Week with folklore treated as high fashion — capes, cowbells, shearling caps and walking sticks draped with handbags.
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