All Aboard the Louis Vuitton Train
This evening, Nicolas Ghesquière staged his Fall 2025 Louis Vuitton collection inside a space designed to look like a Parisian train station. There were nods to the city’s Gare du Nord, with cast iron windows and arched facades, some of which were decorated with video screens playing images featuring the shadows of people walking. The seating for the show was more mid-century modern, as were the lights that lined the space, but all juxtaposed with the Beaux-Arts style columns and walls, one of which featured a giant clock.
Ghesquière wrote in his show notes that he was specifically inspired by station platforms and the people standing at them, coming from and going on their journeys. He was also, of course, inspired by the house’s beginnings as a luggage maker—the first practical flat-top travel trunk was invented by Louis Vuitton in 1858.
But as a whole, the collection is one that “pulls into a station where all emotions converge," he wrote. "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. The euphoria of discovery.”
The clothes certainly evoked a feeling of intrepidness, whether in the ease of an oversized striped jumpsuit and scarf tie or the glamour of a throw-on-and-go tank top paired with a multi-layered ruffle skirt. The see-through rubber trenches that opened the show also recalled a classic piece of travel attire, though in Ghesquière’s station, women wear leather Bermuda shorts with circular cargo pockets and shirts with abstract neon prints.
Other models waiting to board the make-believe Vuitton train were dressed in decade-spanning slinky dresses that were a little boho and a little old-world fabulous and accessorized with hat trunks and sculptural pill-box toppers. There were giant cape coats with chunky LV monogram belt bags, as well as textures that ran the gamut from ethereal and soft to luxe and substantial, fur and velvets and pretty silks included.
Ghesquière put a little bit of everything into this collection, perhaps nodding to the idea that hanging out at a train platform, you’re likely to come face-to-face with a mish-mash of fashion choices, from commuters dressed for work to travelers in casual, comfortable gear to those impossibly well-heeled women who manage to look incredible no matter where they’re going by plane, train, or car.
The Vuitton woman, according to Ghesquière, is all of those things. In his own words, she’s all aboard and all about “enchantment and adventure.”
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