LOUIS VUITTON

While some brands took us on imaginary trips to faraway destinations this season, Louis Vuitton transported us into the past—all the way back to the Age of Enlightenment. But in true Nicolas Ghesquière fashion, past, present, future and everything in between collided in spectacular manner. It’s an aesthetic shared by Italian design studio Fornasetti, with whom Ghesquière has collaborated this season. Prints selected from the vast Fornasetti archive are rendered here on oversize fleece jackets and intarsia knits, and as tessellated patterns on tabard dresses complete with armour-like strips that made the models look like futuristic versions of ancient Roman warriors. Other vestiges of antiquity are also reimagined, such as gladiator boots with unexpected bow ties, and fine beading that echoes Greco-Roman patterns but deliberately left unfinished, as though they were archaeological finds.