Louis Vuitton's Nicolas Ghesquière Predicts the Future of Fashion—As He Creates It

The modern fashion show is a paean to exquisite beauty and breathtaking excess In 2012, Louis Vuitton's former creative director Marc Jacobs paid homage to the juggernaut of luxury travel by creating a life-size steam engine that chugged into the Louvre's Cour Carrée; for his final show in 2013, Jacobs paid homage to himself with a kaleidoscope of self-referential symbols: a train station clock, elevators, an explosion of black-feathered cabaret showgirls Since Ghesquière took the reins, the experience has become increasingly temporal.

In the years since, Ghesquière has brought his guests into the belly of the newly opened Fondation Louis Vuitton, which Ghesquière described as looking "Like a spaceship," and where spring/summer 2015 models walked through spotlights like UFO high beams "Every day we were about to cancel," Ghesquière says now The show went on, albeit with masks and individual fittings, and in the last time slot on the final evening of Paris Fashion Week, the famously punctual lights at Louis Vuitton came up just a few minutes past schedule.

"A lot of things have changed since last March." Not least, some rebranding: The beloved "Travel kit" has become the "Homeware kit," Ghesquière says, with an arch look. . Source