Louis Vuitton is taking its next Cruise collection to NYC

Nicolas Ghesquière is set to parade his 2027 cruise collection for Louis Vuitton on May 20 in New York City. The exact location and timing of the show are still secret. 

Ghesquière, who had been artistic director of women’s collections at Vuitton since 2013, loves choosing important buildings of architectural note as a backdrop for Vuitton’s Cruise shows. Six years ago in May 2019, he took VIPs, clients, and editors to the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport in New York, designed by architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen.
 
Jumping from futurism to medieval, Ghesquière took Vuitton’s cruise 2026 show to the Palais des Papes, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Avignon, Southern France, in a brilliant display of chivalric chic.

 
Other remarkable Vuitton cruise shows have been staged at the Bob Hope estate in California’s Palm Springs, originally designed by John Lautner; Brazil’s Museum of Contemporary Art Niterói by Oscar Niemeyer; Kyoto’s Miho Museum by I.M. Pei; the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence, France by Josep Lluís Sert; and Barcelona’s Park Güell, the fairytale gardens designed by modernist architect Antoni Gaudí. Ghesquière has also staged mega catwalk displays before in the US, including in the Salk Institute in San Diego, a clifftop research facility, and has visited Italy – showing on Isola Bella, one of the Borromean islands on Lake Maggiore.

Vuitton will follow Chanel to NYC, seeing as that house’s designer Matthieu Blazy will stage his first Métiers d’Art show in Manhattan on December 2.