Louis Vuitton Closes Paris Fashion Week With Hovering Cars, Paper-Light Dresses and a Louvre Courtyard Cityscape

The Cour Carrée of the Louvre is not usually mistaken for a motorway. On Tuesday it was. Nicolas Ghesquière turned the courtyard into a retro-futuristic city for Louis Vuitton's spring-summer 2027 show, the last of Paris Fashion Week, with vehicles in the house's Damier check suspended over what The Zoe Report compared to a space-age highway.

The set, according to the show notes quoted by The Zoe Report, sat at the "crossroads of classical architecture and an imagined future". The collection itself was called Ergonomics, and its subject was weight, or the lack of it.

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Ghesquière, in his show note, wrote that "nothing is rigid, everything is fluid, like a second skin that reveals physicality in motion", AFP reported via FashionUnited. The first looks opened with loafers, which AFP called the shoe of the season. Composite dresses of mesh and fabric were described as light as cigarette paper, and straight-cut sixties-style dresses were decorated with reflective paper diamonds that moved in the wind. The palette ran from grey and silver to yellow, "reminiscent of a landing strip", with monogrammed aviator jackets to match.

The Zoe Report saw monochrome pantsuits with wired chokers, sheer organza midi dresses in prismatic patterns, oversized silk suiting that seemed to take flight mid-walk, and leather jackets with checked sleeves inspired by Victorian dressing robes. Mustard-yellow scarves and bejewelled headpieces, like diamond fringe across the top half of the face, supplied the accents. Ghesquière said afterwards that he had worked with climate change in mind, aiming for a scale-like precision to make the fabric as light as possible.