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Louis Vuitton takes Baroque and botanical cues from Italy's Isola Bella for Cruise 2024 collection

Destination cruise shows are among the fashion world's most ambitious, winging the fashion crowd to some of the planet's most scenic locations

By COLLEEN BARRY
Published - May 24, 2023, 08:06 PM ET
Last Updated - Jun 21, 2023, 04:21 PM EDT

STRESA, Italy (AP) — Incessant rain failed to put a damper on Nicolas Ghesquiere’s ambitions for his Louis Vuitton 2024 Cruise collection, unveiled Wednesday to an A-list crowd including Oprah Winfrey, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Connolly and Emma Stone. 

Originally envisioned against a golden sunset setting aglow magnificent fountain on the aptly named Isola Bella on northern Italy’s Lago Maggiore, the show was instead moved into the stately public rooms of the Borromeo Palace, construction of which was started in the 17th century and only completed 400 years later, after World War II. The sprawling palace near the Swiss border remains the summer residence of the Borromeo family. 

Destination cruise shows are among the fashion world’s most ambitious, winging the fashion crowd to some of the planet’s most scenic locations. The internet still buzzes over Ghesquire’s Cruise 2018 show in Kyoto and Cruise 2017 in Rio de Janiero. 

The Isola Bella show was no less enterprising, imagined amid the island’s botanical gardens. The creative force behind Louis Vuitton for the last decade combined Baroque references easily identified in oil paintings hanging throughout the palace with modern materials like neoprene and sporty silhouettes that layered boxers over biker shorts with quilted tops. 

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