The Runway Rundown: All Aboard For Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton may be a modern-day fashion power house, but its origin story is one of travel, its founder crafting treasured trunks for 19th century tourists and jet-setters. Fast forward to 2025, and travel still sits at the beating heart of the brand. It was a connection Nicolas Ghesquière was keen to highlight — and so, for AW25, he took showgoers to the train station.
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The venue was next door to modern-day Gare du Nord, at the former headquarters of an old French train company that operated a high-speed international railway route in the interwar period (essentially the Eurostar of 1920s Paris), the building itself dating back to 1845. That dichotomy between the old and the new, the historical and the modern, ran throughout the new collection, which the House described as a dialogue between adventure and enchantment.
Dresses crafted from vintage-inspired fabrics adorned with velvet florals were teamed with trainers, while a worn-in looking wax cape and Victorian-silhouetted jacket contrasted with futuristic translucent trench coats. Models carried LV monogrammed vanity cases and hat boxes, or a new for the house bag, L’Express, modelled after the brand’s best-selling Keepall.
There were also feminine lace-trimmed floaty dresses; tiered frou-frou skirts worn belted over angular knits; and buttery leather oversized shorts and statement coats, topped off with an oversized hat or an extra-wide headband.
As the lights came down in preparation for Ghesquière’s bow, his cast of models lined the atrium balconies, as if patiently waiting for Louis Vuitton train to arrive. The station clock is ticking... All aboard!
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