Louis Vuitton Spring 2026

Spring 2026 Ready-To-Wear – : A Quiet Splendor at the Louvre

For nearly a decade now, Nicolas Ghesquière has made a habit of turning the Louvre into Louis Vuitton’s grandest stage. Spring 2018 found us in the Pavillon d’Horloge, once a medieval moat, where 18th-century frock coats were paired with trainers. By spring 2022, it was the Passage Richelieu, glowing under antique chandeliers as panniered gowns glided through like visions from Empress Eugénie’s court.

This season, Ghesquière welcomed us into the summer apartments of Anne d’Autriche, Queen of France from 1615 to 1643. Scenographer Marie-Anne Derville re-dressed the rooms with a mix of furnishings the Queen might have recognized—soaring frescoed ceilings, marble floors, arched windows pouring in Paris light—alongside modern flourishes like Art Deco seating by Michel Dufet. Rarely has a Vuitton show felt so intimate, or so comfortable.

That mood of domesticity was deliberate. “It’s somehow in praise of intimacy, for an art de vivre—dressing for yourself first,” Ghesquière explained. “It’s like a trip around your apartment.”

Yet what appeared on the runway was not an exercise in athleisure, nor costume drama. Instead, Ghesquière translated the spirit of Anne d’Autriche’s chambers into tactile modernity: a gauzy piped camisole layered with robe and trousers; a berry-pink silk mini edged in shearling; a slip patterned with wallpaper-like florals; wooden discs stitched into the seams of tailored shorts. Interiors became textiles, ornament became detail.

The craftsmanship astounded. A pale pink belted vest, shimmering like fur, revealed itself as brushed silk painstakingly worked by hand. A beaded fringe set evoked an Impressionist landscape in motion. Despite the labor, the pieces retained a softness, a lived-in ease—as if designed to be worn barefoot on parquet floors, not just under runway lights.

The atmosphere was heightened by Cate Blanchett’s voice reciting the words to Talking Heads’ This Must Be the Place, layered over Tanguy Destable’s music. The choice felt deliberate: at home, façades come down, eccentricities flourish, and comfort itself becomes luxury. Ghesquière reminded us that sometimes fashion’s greatest power lies not in grandeur, but in the intimacy of how we choose to live with it.

Louis Vuitton’s spring 2026 was, in the end, a quiet splendor—an invitation to dress not for the world outside, but for the richness within.