Super Nature at Louis Vuitton

Mountains, forests and plains inspired Nicolas Ghesquière’s Women’s Autumn/Winter 2026 Collection for Louis Vuitton, a meditation on nature refracted through a futuristic lens.

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For the show, the Cour Carrée of the Musée du Louvre was transformed into a neo-landscape evoking an imagined natural world. The space dissolved boundaries between interior and exterior, setting the stage for a journey suspended between reality and speculation.

This isn’t the first time the natural world has inspired the Maison’s scenography. For the Men’s Autumn/Winter 2026 Collection, Pharrell Williams centred the show on a wooden house – DROPHAUS – set amid a sprawling garden, proposing a vision of timeless living rooted in nature. Together, these scenographic gestures signal an ongoing dialogue within the Maison among the environment, architecture, and imagination.

Devised by production designer Jeremy Hindle – known for his work on Severance – the scenography for the Women’s Autumn/Winter 2026 Collection presented nature as an abstraction, seen through the prism of tomorrow. Models moved through a fluctuating pastoral environment, a living painting infused with a subtle sci-fi sensibility.

The garments echoed this tension between familiarity and otherworldliness. Shaped as if by wind, rain and sun, the silhouettes suggested lives in motion across vast terrains. Flora and fauna left their imprint: reinvented animalier patterns appeared on canvas and denim, while imagined flowers sculpted in leather functioned as both ornament and armour.

The collection ultimately became a celebration of hyper-craft. Through three-dimensional printing and resin techniques, the Maison reinterpreted natural materials – leather grained to resemble wood, mineral-like buttons, and heels shaped like antlers. Rather than imitation, these transformations proposed a sublimation of nature, where advanced technology met the enduring ingenuity of human artisanship, reframing the natural world within a future-forward digital reality. | eu.louisvuitton.com

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