Nicolas Ghesquière’s closed Paris Fashion Week with a new collection for Louis Vuitton that drew inspiration from the host venue, the Louvre’s Pavillon de l’Horloge. The trick of making the past look like the future combined the frock coats of its royal palace phase with elevated versions of the athletic clothes and sneakers that tourists pad around it in today. Brocade frock coats were paired with silk running shorts of many colors, or, for the less toned of upper thigh, patent leather jeans.
