Louis Vuitton presents an autumn-winter collection inspired by folklore and furs at the Louvre

Louis Vuitton womenswear designer Nicolas Ghesquière drew inspiration for his fall-winter collection from folklore and fur. Everything is here — fluffy coats, fur hats, frills. They filled the courtyard of the Louvre on the last day of Paris Fashion Week.

Models paraded down the runway against a backdrop of sharp green silhouettes reminiscent of mountains, carrying branches draped with bags or lifting huge wicker baskets above their heads. One of them was dressed in a triangular red dress that looked like a tent, writes xrust.

“There are clothes that allow you to move freely around the world, like nomads—so there was really this idea of universal folklore,” Ghesquière told reporters after the screening. “It’s about the silhouette, it’s about the architecture, but it’s also about a collective history, about the collective images that we all have.”

Guests walked up the stairs into a huge glass exhibition space in the Cure Carré, one of the main courtyards of the Louvre, a world-famous museum that was once a royal palace. The austere green set was designed by Jeremy Hindle, best known for the dystopian TV series The Gap.

Skirts and sets made of thick checkered fabric were decorated with paintings by the artist Nazar Strelyaev-Nazarko depicting lambs, and trousers had fur trim at the seams or ended with frills just below the knee, like pantaloons. Backpacks, both large and miniature, as well as high-heeled shoes imitating deer antlers, were used as accessories.

Some models showed fur hats inspired by Central Asia, while jackets and coats had exaggerated broad shoulders with fur epaulettes or fur sleeves with matching mittens that completely covered the models' hands.

“There were sporadic appearances of some of the animals that could be found in the mountains: wolf, sheep, rabbit,” Ghesquière said.

Celebrities in the front row included actress Zendaya, K-pop star Felix, film director Baz Luhrmann and American figure skater Alice Liu, who won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics last month.

Ghesquière, a womenswear designer at the LVMH-owned brand since 2013, is among the few in the fashion world who remained in his post as more than a dozen brands changed creative direction.

Known for its monogrammed leather bags, Louis Vuitton has been producing ready-to-wear collections for men and women since 1998, when Marc Jacobs was its creative director.

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