Forty-nine looks later, and the best thing about Louis Vuitton wasn’t even on the runway.
Sorry, but Zendaya in jeans and that fabulous white ruffled jacket had more presence than most of the collection. The actor reworked the Louis Vuitton lace jacket she previously wore to The Odyssey premiere, styling it with a simple white tank, straight-leg jeans and pointed pumps. The contrast between everyday denim and the dramatic, Elizabethan-inspired ruffles made the look feel effortless and memorable.
Nicolas Ghesquière presented the Spring/Summer 2027 collection in the Louvre’s Cour Carrée, transforming the historic setting into a retro-futurist cityscape. Floating car sculptures hovered above the asphalt runway, combining wedge-shaped forms with Louis Vuitton’s Damier checks and the house’s long-standing fascination with travel.
The clothes themselves followed the theme of movement and lightness. Gauzy dresses, soft tailoring, short jackets, draped silhouettes and fluid layers replaced some of Ghesquière’s more aggressively sculptural signatures. The palette of grey, silver, cream and yellow felt clean and futuristic, but the collection did not always match the ambition of its set.
And those metallic forehead contraptions? Horse blinders, but yassified. Crystal fringes and visor-like accessories partially obscured the models’ faces, pushing the show’s ideas about motion and futurism into more literal territory.
Floating cars at the Louvre? Now that’s a set. Shame the clothes didn’t quite take off with them.
