Louis Vuitton's Fall Runway Invites You To Reminisce

Scientific research claims that the act of planning a trip, one you don't even intend on taking, boosts dopamine levels the same way actually traveling can. With flight restrictions in play and the population still largely unvaccinated, the very thought of venturing outside of your country—hell, out of your borough—can induce anxiety, so using our imagination is all we have. Louis Vuitton is tapping into that exact energy. Collaborating with Fornasetti, an Italian artistic design atelier founded in 1940, creative director Nicolas Ghesquière explored the rich, 13,000-piece archive of prints and paintings as the starting point for his fall-winter 2021 collection. "As a designer who has always loved fashion’s ability to evoke the past, present and future simultaneously, I wanted to add new layers to this creative palimpsest," he stated in the show notes. "Exploring the Fornasetti archives had the excitement of an archaeological dig, searching for and finding drawings from the past to give them a new life for Louis Vuitton—for now and the future.”