Louis Vuitton brings its next Cruise collection to New York

Nicolas Ghesquière will show his cruise 2027 collection for Louis Vuitton on May 20 in New York City. The exact location and time of the show are still secret.

Ghesquière, who had been artistic director of Vuitton's women's collections since 2013, loves choosing important buildings of architectural interest as backdrops for Vuitton's cruise shows. Six years ago, in May 2019, he brought VIPs, clients and editors to the TWA Flight Center at New York's JFK Airport, designed by architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen.

Leaping from futurism to medieval, Ghesquière brought Vuitton's Cruise 2026 show to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Popes in Avignon, southern France, in a brilliant display of chivalric elegance.

Other notable Vuitton cruise shows have been held at the Bob Hope Estate in Palm Springs, California, originally designed by John Lautner; the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art in Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer; the Miho Museum in Kyoto, by IM Pei; the Maeght Foundation 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 held mega shows in the United States, including at San Diego's Salk Institute, a cliff-top research center, and has visited Italy, parading on Isola Bella, one of the Borromean islands in Lake Maggiore.

Vuitton will follow Chanel to New York, as that house's designer, Matthieu Blazy, will present his first Métiers d'Art show in Manhattan on December 2.