At Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027, everyone wanted to be “Her”

"Boys wanna be her, girls wanna be her..." was the refrain that echoed through the room as Nicolas Ghesquière opened Louis Vuitton’s Cruise 2027 show in New York City with all the swagger of a cult sci-fi heroine entering frame.

At Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027, everyone wanted to be “Her”. "Boys wanna be her, girls wanna be her..." was the refrain that echoed through the room as Nicolas Ghesquière opened Louis Vuitton’s Cruise 2027 show in New York City with all the swagger of a cult sci-fi heroine entering frame. To the thumping tune of Peaches' 2006 electroclash track Boys Wanna Be Her, models moved through moss-carpeted corridors and around interior fountains in sculpted leather, sharp tailoring and exaggerated silhouettes that seemed to belong simultaneously to the 1960s, the 1980s and some imagined future. Ghesquière has long mastered the art of collapsing time periods into a nebulous sartorial vision, but Cruise 2027 felt especially confident in its contradictions. Hosted at The Frick – a space where art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century are...