Nicolas Ghesquière transforms the Louvre into a windswept fantasy, where sculptural outerwear, folkloric references and unexpected accessories – including a log-house cabin bag — reimagine nature as a futuristic myth for autumn/winter '26
Across a mossy, otherworldly landscape in the Cour carrée of the Louvre, Nicolas Ghesquière’s Louis Vuitton autumn/winter '26 played out like a sci-fi fable. Titled 'Super Nature', the collection effectively reframed the natural world as a new kind of fashion mythology, with mountains, forests and plains embedded in the clothes themselves.
The opening looks made that clear. “The show set the tone from the beginning with incredible architectural coats, creating a feeling like a fantasy world in the mountains,” Vogue Scandinavia editor in chief Martina Bonnier describes. The silhouettes feel almost formed by exposure – by wind, cold, and terrain – and suggest figures in transit: shepherds, travellers, characters drawn from folklore and recast through a futuristic lens.
More silhouette surprises followed. The cropped, “bloomer-like” trousers were noteworthy for Bonnier, sitting beneath oversized outerwear, while skirts swell into ballooned shapes, slit open to reveal movement beneath. Accessories push the narrative further: fur-trimmed hats, grounded wedge heels, and bags that verge on the fantastical – a little log-house cabin slung over the shoulder being a case in point.
In Ghesquière's words, AW26 presents “a new folklore for the future,” with echoes of traditional dress (wrapped silhouettes, cloaks, layered textures) filtered through a Vuitton kind of precision. Pastoral animal references in paintings by Ukrainian artist Nazar Strelyaev-Nazarko – first seen on the show invite – are dotted throughout the looks, capturing the “almost storybook quality of it all,” as Bonnier puts it.
But despite the pastoral charm, the collection is anything but nostalgic. Ghesquière’s ongoing dialogue between craft and technology surfaces in the details: buttons that resemble minerals, heels that echo antlers, leather treated to mimic wood grain. Three-dimensional printing and resin techniques sitting comfortably alongside traditional savoir-faire. And we can never forget Vuitton's heritage as a house of travel: from the return of the Noé bag in its original 1932 proportions to the broader idea of garments designed for traversal, migration or adaptation.
There are, of course, pieces that will land more immediately – sharp jackets, intricately worked knits – but relatability is not the point here. According to Bonnier, Super Nature reads as “a thoroughly modern mountain shepherd fairytale”
See Louis Vuitton's AW26 collection in full below.
