Nature is the greatest fashion designer. A twenty-first century architecture of clothing, defined by the natural world, inspires the Fall Winter 2026 Louis Vuitton collection by Nicolas Ghesquière. Mountains, forests, plains. Clothes evolved with instinctive reactions to and interactions with our climate and surroundings – for endurance, protection, freedom – become fashion. A heightened view, of that which surrounds us.
Super nature.
Traverse and transverse – connecting different places, alternate views, new times. The extreme shapes and details of clothes are formed by the elemental – wind, rain, sun. The silhouettes are defined by life in nature, their form language beyond any we could imagine. Like traditional costumes, these clothes are shaped by how people have lived, by our sense of belonging, and fundamental truths, past and present. Today it is necessary to invent this anew, reinterpreting the natural within the shifted context of a digital world. It is not an escape from our realities, but an echo of them. A new folklore, for the future.
A life lived with nature – within landscapes – forges harmonies between clothes and the natural world. Flora and fauna leave imprints on garments, inspiring fabrications that may live within a landscape. Reenvisaged animalier patterns are woven into canvas and denim, invented flowers shaped in leather as decoration, sometimes protection. The notion of collage as a travel in cloth brings together divergent elements, mapping a topography of the body. A memory of our histories, of the attitudes and realities that made us as people, shape clothes with an inherent globality.
Hyper-craft. Not imitation but sublimation of nature, melding technologies with the timeless ingenuity of human artisanship. Savoir-faire and savoir-être – a humanity can always be found in people’s stories and our métiers. Three-dimensional printing and resins may approximate naturalistic materials – buttons that appear like minerals, heels that resemble antlers – while vegetal furs invent new texture. Leather is grained, grooved and tanned to mirror wood with a supple hand, a surreal and super-natural impossibility.
The nature of Louis Vuitton. Expertise in malletier and leather devises new means to transport lives, to move freely through the world like nomadic peoples. The Noé bag returns to its original 1932 proportion and color – shifting through time, you can carry home with you. Bags for exploration and wanderlust underscore a human curiosity, our interaction with the earth. A reinterpretation of Man Ray on a Modernist parure is framed through the distinct language of Louis Vuitton – earrings, a ring, a collier studded with the nail-heads of a Louis Vuitton trunk. They travel from the past to the now.
Within nature: in the Cour carrée of the Musée du Louvre, a neo-landscape is imagined. Devised by production designer Jeremy Hindle (Severance, 2022, 2025), it is an abstraction of the natural, its representation through a prism of tomorrow. Fusing outside and in, the scenography transforms the voyages of the models into a fluctuating, living pastoral painting, a modern allegory, a sci-fi fable.
