"That's kind of his whole idea at Louis Vuitton, the 170-something year old Maison currently celebrating 130 years of its never-changing, ever-popular monogram. Each season, Ghesquière jolts us out of our complacency to reconsider this luxury behemoth. In a sense, its ever-familiar name is a Trojan horse to expound some of the most progressive ideas around fashion today."
"The set was devised by the production designer Jeremy Hindle, responsible for the coldly dystopian surreality of the television series. Vuitton's beyond-natural nature was built in a glass petri dish, plonked inside the Cour Carrée of the musée du Louvre. It felt like a melding of the landscapes we all know with something distinctly alien, a friction Ghesquière revels in."
"This show was no exception - it had a grand scheme, big ideas. 'A form of anthropology through fashion,' was Ghesquière's take, swooping around the globe to examine the dress of different and diverse cultures unified in their fundamental shaping by the elements. Think shepherds, farmers, high-on-the-hill lonely goatherds, cowbells trilling."
Nicolas Ghesquière's Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2026 collection presents 'Super nature,' a conceptual exploration that merges recognizable natural landscapes with distinctly alien, surreal elements. Set designer Jeremy Hindle created a glass petri dish installation within the Louvre's Cour Carrée, evoking dystopian imagery. Ghesquière approaches the collection as anthropological fashion study, examining how diverse global cultures—shepherds, farmers, goatherds—develop dress through environmental necessity. The extreme, mountainous silhouettes derive from Turkish kepenek capes, traditional felted garments evolved to withstand wind and rain. This collection exemplifies Ghesquière's broader strategy at Louis Vuitton: using the heritage brand's familiar monogram as a vehicle for progressive, conceptually ambitious fashion ideas that challenge conventional perspectives.
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