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Nicolas Ghesquière discusses his experiences in New York and the inspiration behind Louis Vuitton's resort 2027 collection.

The first time Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière visited New York, he stayed downtown at a friend’s loft on Lafayette Street, in the then-transforming neighborhood of SoHo. “It was really a shock for me to see that you could live in those cool buildings and apartments,” he tells Nicole Phelps on this week’s episode of The Run-Through . “It was literally the opposite of Paris, somehow.” Later on that same trip, he recalls, he explored uptown, taking in the beauty of Central Park, which instantly reminded him of iconic films. “I don’t think that thing ever disappears, honestly,” he said, “when you first visit New York, and you discover the richness of the city.” Ghesquière is back in New York, having presented his resort 2027 collection for Louis Vuitton in the garden of the Gilded Age mansion-turned-museum, The Frick Collection, where the house has just taken on a three-year role as principal cultural sponsor. Fittingly, the collection explores the designer ’s first memories of the city. “I was very interested to explore, again, the downtown, uptown duality, confrontation, harmony,” he said. “Where is the line, you know, culturally between those people?” People like the late…

People in this episode

Host: Nicole Phelps

Guest: Nicolas Ghesquière

Topics covered

• fashion
• design
• New York
• Louis Vuitton
• art
• cultural duality

Keywords

• Louis Vuitton
• Nicolas Ghesquière
• New York
• fashion design
• resort collection
• Keith Haring
• The Frick Collection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Louis Vuitton, The Frick Collection

Places: New York, SoHo, Central Park

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