Overview
- Louis Vuitton presented its Cruise/Resort 2027 collection at The Frick Collection in New York on May 20 in a celebrity-filled show that used the museum’s renovated rooms as a runway.
- The fashion house and The Frick announced a three-year patronage that will fund three major temporary exhibitions and offer free first-Friday after-hours evenings for a year, a move that links commercial branding to museum programming.
- Zendaya, a Louis Vuitton ambassador, arrived in a custom silver satin mini and later changed into Look 14 from the runway—a cropped black motorcycle jacket paired with canary yellow satin boxer shorts—for the after-party, illustrating how stars translate runway pieces into immediate street and party looks.
- Nicolas Ghesquière’s Cruise 2027 mixed uptown and downtown codes with ruffles, biker leather, metallic footwear and Keith Haring–inspired graphics, a concept that media coverage cast as marrying French craft with New York pop culture.
- At Cannes on the same night, Bella Hadid wore a custom Schiaparelli haute couture gown that the house said required 22,160 hours of embroidery and 130 artisans and that intentionally referenced Jane Birkin’s 1969 look, underlining the season’s emphasis on artisanal provenance and archival homage.