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This Louis Vuitton Fall 2025 season, creative director Nicholas Ghesquière collaborated with the inimitable set designer Es Devlin to recreate a bustling and extremely stylish departure lounge at a Parisian train station. L’Étoile du Nord, a hidden station that preserves the excitement of 19th-century rail travel, became the stage for the comings and goings of people with places to be. “A place where fleeting moments are shared amongst strangers, weaving a tapestry of stories,” the Maison noted.
Anna Wintour was one of the first to take her seat. Alicia Vikander was spotted sporting a new bob. The Haim sisters, all dressed in SS25 pieces with ballooning power shoulders almost didn’t fit side-by-side in their little square seats. Ana de Armas was there, as was Saoirse Ronan, Léa Seydoux, Sophie Turner, Lisa, Phoebe Dynevor, and Australia’s Leila George—all seemingly waiting for the same train.
“The Fall 2025-2026 collection pulls into a station where all emotions converge,” the show notes read. “Impatience with the ticking of the clock. At the end of the same platform is the hopefulness of love or the melancholy of separation. The enthusiasm of departure or the comfort of return.”
Mr. Ghesquière captured this enduring exhilaration of travel—and the many different types of travellers—through a fusion of patterns, textures, colour and prints. One early look set the anything goes agenda: a metallic Victorian-inspired ruff collar styled with long, leather Bermuda shorts and a sheer rain jacket. Elsewhere tailored suits, black-trimmed white capes in cosy wool, bohemian maxi dresses and long plaid scarves with pockets and buttons—all teamed with bucket toppers, ultra wide brims or little berets. The finale comprised of models gathering on the upper levels of the building, looking down on the fashion set in the departure lounge, a scene reminiscent of Ormond Gigli’s infamous 1960 “Girls in the Windows” photograph.
The House collaborated with legendary 70s German electronic band Kraftwerk to soundtrack the show. The cover of their iconic album Trans-Europe Express was spotted splayed across some looks.
For 171 years, the House of Louis Vuitton has continued to capture its founder’s love of travel. A French box maker and entrepreneur, Louis Vuitton established his namesake brand in 1854 focusing on glorious luxury trunks and luggage. The Maison reprises this chapter of its history in its Fall 2025 collection with a family of soft-sided bags, like the Keepall, whose timeless shape announces L’Express, a new style defined by soft colours and fine lines.
As Mr. Ghesquière nears 12 years at the helm of the House, he certainly shows no signs of slowing down. (The Maison recently announced it will launch its first cosmetics line with Pat McGrath as creative director.) A man who can dress a woman with any personality on any given day proves, once again, that when it comes to travel, a wardrobe for the journey is just as important as the destination.
See the highlights from the Louis Vuitton Fall 2025 show below.
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