Louis Vuitton Cruise 2026 Ready-to-Wear Runway, Modenschau & Collection Review

Avignon, France – Everyone is a stage, William Shakespeare once wrote. Now Nicolas Ghesquière has proposed a variety of exuberant clothing.

His latest cruise collection for Louis Vuitton is a hit – wasteful, spun in the mind and theatrically to the right degree. While it is extravagant, it cleverly avoided the warning of the “costume y”, which sometimes contradicts designers.

Vuitton and Ghesquière brought the fashion package to Avignon and its world -famous Palais of the Pape, whose imposing Gothic architecture increased the “Excalibur” vibes of the collection, which extended from busy medieval tunics and Jaunem capes to Soft Joan from ARC dresses in metallic jersey.

“Women’s armor for everyday life,” said Ghesquière and smiled.

The accessories were dazzling, the open, sock -like ankle boots that were put under control with mirrors and all sorts of precious materials, and the hemmed -up leather boots with Ziillion. Alma Bags came with the gold -plated 3D decorations, which were usually found on rare book envelopes. In English, the technology is referred to as “manuscript lighting”.

“It deals with the story, but it is not historical,” said Ghesquière about the collection during a preview on Thursday and rattled a variety of references, which spanned from Arthurian Times to a good for glam-rock king, from David Bowie to the Haim sisters, on Thursday evening.

The Papes’ Palais, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been an important venue for the city’s annual theater festival since 1947 when the French director and actor Jean Vilar perform performances in the huge courtyard of the historical monument.

Now Vuitton is the first fashion house in which a runway show is built in the landmark in the landmark, in which the papacy took place 70 years to 1377 when it returned to Rome.

Devlin created a striking series of graded red Velvet theaters that were left empty, and placed the audience on which the stage would normally be placed for the summer festival program.

Cate Blanchett, Emma Stone, Saoirse Ronan, Catherine Deneuve, Alicia Vikander and Stacy Martin – many in the southern France for the Film Festival of Cannes – belonged to celebrities in the front row, the Julia -Nobis walks in the uniform with visually scratched uniforms, in the uniform, in which the appearance appeared Appearances to make the appearances on the way.

“I was very interested in clothing for the stage who are generally so influential in fashion by musicians, by actors, through dancers. It is something very collective and very inspiring,” enthusiastic Ghesquière.

With its surveillance of rich, often metallic fabrics and dense embroidery, the collection, although quite a bit, was a few long -legged rock suits that were preferred by French -Herst Lady Brigitte -Macron, and much demonstrative knitwear and jersey, some unknowable than such.

Ghesquière went to the city with unusual materials and textures, from Pert Caps in Raffia to wooden frame bags in cooperation with Thomas Roger, a cunning 30-year-old child prodigy in Alsace, France, which the designer discovered on the Dutch model Marte Mei van Haaster.

The fabrics reflected colors and motifs in works of art and decorations in the papal bedroom, while the silhouettes – short, flickering skater skirts and knitted hot pants were present – rooted in today’s.

Ghesquière said he visited Avignon for the first time in the early Aughts and met Bill Viola videos, Pina Bausch -Performances and Christan Boltanski installations and cemented the stature of the city as the “cradle of culture”.

He sees the target cruise shows as a participation in the celebration of the culture – the key to Vuitton because it continues to expand its tentacles into art, entertainment and hospitality.

To joke: the luxury giant, the 36 hotels distributed in Provence to organize guests of the show who were spoiled with olive oil tastings, hikes, antique market visits and dinner and lunch in spectacular places.

It is a big year for Avignon and celebrates the 25th anniversary of the European Capital of Culture, the 30th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and the 50th anniversary of the Petit Palais-Louvre Museum.

The French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, among the guests of Vuitton’s show, is increasing a massive solo show in the areas of public spaces and 10 museums, including the Palais of the Pape.

“It is always astonishing for an artist to see this craziness of fashion – and the links to the architecture and the spirit of the place,” said Othoniel after the show. “But I really loved the shoes. The shoes were incredible.”

But of course the performance for the stage was the other great history of the collection and the night.

“The first time I came to Avignon was the (theater) festival,” said Blanchett, a regular guest on stage when she arrived in a dramatic bat blouse in the VIP cocktail.

“I could be on stage pretty soon soon,” teased Chloë Grace Moretz and added that her beauty line Godmode started “very soon”.

Ronan confessed a bit reserved when the piece is the thing.

“The theater is wonderful, but there is a little bit of you who say:” My goodness, that’s hard, “she said, shrugging a leather bomber jacket over her damn lingerie dress.” My husband (Jack Lowden) is currently on stage and I think he is more born to be on stage than I do. “

“However, I like theater and fashion together,” she added.