There was an almost meditative quality to Nicolas Ghesquière’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection for Louis Vuitton. Cate Blanchett’s velvet voice, reciting the words, “Home is where I want to be,” lingered in the air like incense, setting the mood for a show that unfolded less like a spectacle and more like a serene passage. Nearly twelve years into his tenure at the brand, Ghesquière feels very much at home. This season, he invited us to join him in his calm, personal sanctuary.
The opening look felt like a whispered proposal: a fluid chiffon ensemble in soft grey, traced with stark black piping, gliding through the summer apartments of Anne of Austria in the Louvre. A designer’s ode to loungewear, perhaps, but elevated to the sublime. From there, silhouettes softened into languid jersey coats, terrycloth-like vests in pale blush, and glimmers of crystal constellations scattered across the body like dream fragments.
Ghesquière’s instinct for historical resonance surfaced, as always, in details refracted through his futuristic lens. A blush-pink mini trimmed with shearling echoed Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette – a wink to decadence repurposed for the now. Exaggerated collars, at once silken and stiff, crowned relaxed blazers and shirtdresses, merging the past’s ornament with today’s ease.
Even the accessories carried this notion of cocooning luxury. Moccasin boots and fur-lined slippers padded softly alongside loose lace socks. Twisted headpieces — part hat, part pillow — added an off-kilter wit. Knitted shoulder bags, oversized and tactile, seemed designed not just to carry but to comfort.
What emerged was a wardrobe not for retreat, but for inhabiting space differently – calm, tender, yet resolutely modern. In Ghesquière’s hands, home is not just where we live, but a state of being.
Words by Martin Onufrowicz
