Louis Vuitton Resort Collection 2018

Nicolas Ghesquiere's ode to Japan takes over the Miho Museum in Kyoto

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Cruise collections are designed with late summer travel in mind; wardrobe additions for holidays to far-flung locations where summer may last a little longer. Nicolas Ghesquiere also had his mind set on travel as he chose Kyoto, in Japan, for his fourth Cruise presentation since joining venerable luxury brand Louis Vuitton as artistic director of women's collections in November 2013. His previous Cruise shows have been set against bastions of Modernist architecture. In 2015, the brand chose Bob Hope's spaceship-inspired concrete villa at the edge of Palm Springs, followed by Oscar Niemeyer's Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in 2016. For this year's spectacle, guests, led by actresses Michelle Williams and Jennifer Connelly, who donned a forest-green belted Louis Vuitton tracksuit for the occasion, made their way to the Miho Museum, located in a nature preserve in the Shiga Prefecture, south-east of Kyoto. Opened in 1997, the museum is home to the private collection of Mihoko Koyama, heiress to the Toyobo textile company fortune, who commissioned IM Pei to design a home for her museum of treasures. The architect is best known as the man who gave the Louvre its pyramid.

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