Inside Nicolas Ghesquière’s Triumphant First Decade at Louis Vuitton

For a decade, Nicolas Ghesquière’s Louis Vuitton has thought big—globally big—with its mix of historic narrative and futuristic vision. Fashion still holds a powerful sway for Ghesquière—but so too, he tells Nathan Heller, does a life far, far away from work.

Portraits by Justine Triet, Fashion Photographs by Steven Meisel. Then, a couple of months later, Ghes­quière assembled a cast of models in his studio and—in the rhythm of his own life over the past decade—prepared to do it all again. “Hi, Sacha!” he exclaims as the model Sacha Quenby enters, wearing a purple bow-like wrap top, high boots, and billowing jodhpurs, and begins to stride down a test runway in the middle of the room.

“Somehow he’s able to do those things and maintain balance and wearability with the overall design.” When Ghesquière began work on his 10th-anniversary show, he put down the pencil and, instead, assembled his studio to ask which of his past pieces stood the test of time. Then he began to mix them up and play—could a winter coat from a past season become an evening dress? “It’s a clue game that the connoisseur might recognize,” he says. “The newcomer won’t, but they might recognize a style.

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