Louis Vuitton ‘s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it.
On Tuesday he closed out a starry Paris Fashion Week with folklore treated as high fashion — capes, cowbells, shearling caps and walking sticks draped with handbags.
Ghesquière called the collection “Super Nature” and said he wanted to find what mountain people from the Alps to Central Asia to the Andes all have in common: clothes shaped by weather, altitude and the need to keep moving.
Zendaya, Ana de Armas, Jennifer Connelly and Jaden Smith sat in the front row.
The set, designed by “Severance” production designer Jeremy Hindle, turned the Louvre’s oldest courtyard — the Cour Carrée — into something between a sci-fi landscape and an Alpine postcard.
Wolves, sheep and sailor hats
The show opened with shaggy capes and exaggerated shoulders.
Fur epaulettes swallowed models’ arms and cone-shaped hats
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