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.
