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Nicolas Ghesquière marks Louis Vuitton with powerhouse show in Paris
In a vast futuristic greenhouse at the Louvre, 4,000 guests were shown why the brand is the biggest of them all
The 4,000 guests – a capacity doubled for the season by the inclusion of 2,000 Louis Vuitton employees – were each greeted with a typewritten note in which Ghesquière recalled the “immense joy” he had felt 10 years ago. At Louis Vuitton, and before that at Balenciaga, Ghesquière has created his own distinctive fashion language that fuses opulence with futurism, which sounds unlikely to work but somehow always does, and which looks as on-point now as it did a decade ago. The appointment of Pharrell Williams last year as creative director of menswear confirmed that if Paris is the Hollywood of fashion, Louis Vuitton is the biggest superhero franchise in town.
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