When Louis Vuitton introduced final month that his Cruise 2026 present will happen on the Palais des Papes in Avignon, within the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur area of France, the French luxurious label couldn’t have predicted that the pomp and circumstances of the papacy would make a information of the primary web page only some days later, when Pope Francis died.
Simply three weeks earlier than the presentation of the gathering, the Catholic Church appointed a brand new Pope, Leo XIV, the primary American pontiff in historical past.
In-built lower than 20 years from 1335, the Palais des Papes turned a brief papal residence throughout an period of agitation within the Vatican within the fourteenth century. Thought of one of the vital Gothic buildings in Europe, the Palace organized six agrees, and was appointed World Heritage by UNESCO in 1995.
Since 1947, the Palace has been the house of the D’Avignon Pageant, one of the well-known cultural occasions in France.
In an interview earlier than the present, the designer remembered to have attended the pageant on the age of 29, when he noticed artists resembling Icelandic singer Björk and the German dancer Pina Bausch acts on stage. He referred to as the expertise of being surrounded by as a lot tradition as a younger “a change of play in my aesthetics as a designer.”
The gathering was a tribute to the costumes and scene of these artists. Different references included the cupboards of the medieval knights, the tapestries that embellish the inside of the Palais des Papes, and even the legend of Excalibur, the magic sword of King Arthur.
The equipment went from brazenly open boots adorned with mirror fragments and crystals to the unique baggage of Louis Vuitton, resembling Alma and the small mesh embellished with Gothic motifs. Three sq. picket baggage have been the results of a collaboration between Louis Vuitton and unbiased designer Thomas Rogers primarily based in Paris.
