Show review in a sentence: Nicolas Ghesquière reimagines nature through a surreal lens, delivering a collection charged with scale and wanderlust.
Designer: Nicolas Ghesquière
Location: The Louvre
What would nature look like if it were fashioned by fashion? That was the question Nicolas Ghesquière posed for Louis Vuitton’s fall/winter 2026 collection. Inside the Louvre, a vivid green tavern-like set framed a collection that explored the meeting point between the natural and the surreal. There is always a certain grandeur to a Louis Vuitton show, along with the consistency that Nicolas Ghesquière has honed over the years.
This season, however, he steered the house somewhere a little unexpected. Instead of the sleek layering and controlled maximalism that has become his signature, the first thing that caught the eye was scale. The opening looks arrived in large, looming shapes, moving with the slow, deliberate grace of elk crossing a lush green field. The collection read almost like a call to movement. Those exaggerated silhouettes lent the lineup an off-kilter sense of wanderlust, as if the clothes themselves were built for drifting across landscapes.
The effect was one of quiet power: grandeur tempered by strength, fashion charged with a slightly untamed spirit. Drawing on the house’s heritage as a malletier, the collection reimagined natural materials through a technological lens. Three-dimensional printed resins formed mineral-like buttons, heels curved like antlers, plant-based furs introduced new textures, and leather was treated to resemble wood while remaining supple. While the coats carried the most drama, it was the bags that drew the eye.
A black pouch chimed softly with a ringing bell, a leather bag wrapped around the edge of a wooden walking stick the models carried and the house’s trunks appeared in playful new iterations, alongside novelty bags shaped like tiny houses. The nomadic thread felt entirely natural for Louis Vuitton, where travel has always been the foundation of the house. My favourite look was a shimmering checkered co-ord scattered with mirrors, catching the light with every step and capturing the whimsical spirit of a modern wanderer.
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