Inside a setting bordered by lush vegetation, Nicolas Ghesquière presented a Fall/Winter 2026-2027 show featuring silhouettes with surprising architectural structures. His inspiration? Nature, or, as he describes it himself, “super-nature.”
The Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2026-2027 show.
Nature at the heart of the Louis Vuitton show
From the moment guests arrived at the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2026-2027 show, they discovered Nicolas Ghesquière’s new muse. Conceived by Jeremy Hindle, the production designer behind the series Severance and the film Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the set design was reminiscent of the video game Minecraft. The setting brought the outside world inside the walls of the École du Louvre and transformed the event into a contemporary pastoral tableau.
The silhouettes then started to emerge on the runway, like echoes of that main theme. Traditional clothes were revamped as everyday outfits with imposing architectural shapes. Adorned with tricorn hats, wide-brimmed capelines, raincoats, or jumpsuits, the models resembled modern-day explorers, whose accessories and patterns further extended that idea…
Functional bags
Indeed, one could notice the wide range of handbags carried by the models. The Noé bag, first created in 1932, was back to its original design and colour. Like an elegant leather bundle, large enough to hold one’s essentials and more, the model held it with her hand. In his show notes, Nicolas Ghesquière explains that he designed accessories for “exploration and discovery.”
One could also spot small, elegant trunks, as well as backpacks and the Man Ray utility bag revamped as a set of jewellery — earrings, ring, and necklace — and studded like a Vuitton trunk. It was a journey through time, blending the art of travel and exploration. A field in which the French fashion house first made its mark at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, especially with the iconic Malle Courrier.
The plant world down to the smallest details
In this Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2026 show inspired by nature, a multitude of motifs and details sprang from each silhouette, crafted by the expert hands of the house’s ateliers. Animal motifs were woven into canvas or denim. Imaginary flowers, entirely invented by Nicolas Ghesquière, bloomed on leather, like delicate ornamentation.
Buttons with mineral-like colours and shapes, deer antler-inspired heels, coats whose fur recalled sheepskin… The collection explored new textures. Leather, one of the house’s signature fabrics, was grained, carved with grooves and tanned to imitate the ridges of wood. These inspirations drawn from the plant world completed that unprecedented collection, titled “Super nature.”
