On the latest episode of The Run Through, Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière sits down with Nicole Phelps ahead of the designer’s spring 2025 show taking place on October 1st. Fresh off celebrating a decade as creative director of womenswear, Ghesquière explains that the new show will be “the beginning of a new chapter” for the maison. “You know how much traveling is attached to the history of the show, so there will be a trip going on. I have the wish of expressing a new kind of renaissance,” he said. Exciting words to hear from one of our most forward-thinking designers, who has continually explored different visions of the future throughout his career.
The French designer talks about his childhood, revealing that he began interning in designer studios by the time he was 14 (“It would be totally illegal today”), before eventually landing a job at Jean Paul Gaultier when he was 18, which set him off on the path that took him to where he is today. Thinking back to when he was appointed as Louis Vuitton’s creative director in 2013, the emotion he carries today is immense joy. “I did reveal what was going to [be] the new vocabulary for LV.”
Ghesquière also reveals his dream future project—which is not what you think, but if you’ve been following his career throughout the last three decades it will certainly not surprise you, the place he’d most like to visit, and talks about the woman who he comes back to again and again for inspiration.
In a recent Vogue interview, Ghesquière was quoted as saying, “Fashion used to be for weird people,” which immediately began making the rounds on social media (and at least several group chats). Phelps invited him to expand on the thought: “It was a little world by itself and it was quite fun,” he explains. “It was a place where you felt more protected at the time, because people were much more ready to accept a new world. And somehow I’m glad this new world exists in a larger scale today. Fashion became so successful because so many people recognize their own differences and their beautiful unity within all those differences.”
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