Strutting down a platform runway of over a thousand different Louis Vuitton Trunks, Louis Vuitton unveiled its Women’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection. Conceptualized by the House’s women’s wear designer, Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s newest collection imagines a multifaceted femininity, defined by a wardrobe of contrasts, constantly fluctuating between structure and fluidity, texture and print. 

The collection includes pictorial works by the artist Laurent Grasso – a repetition of five paintings from the series entitled Studies into the Past. The series of works incorporates a contrast of  visual motifs in a fusion of time and space, serving as a major conceptual project aimed at reconstructing our perception of the reality of another era. The mythological and religious narrative elements characteristic of fifteenth and sixteenth century painters, from which Grasso’s painting style for this collection was inspired, are replaced by celestial phenomena which were rarely featured in paintings of the time.

Similar to these paintings that are incorporated in its designs, the women’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection thrives on contrast. Bold, geometric patterns can be seen on soft, loose silhouettes. Grasso’s elegant paintings paired with tattered, shiny skirts. 

In short, this season of Louis Vuitton can be best described as a spectacle of soft power; at times contradictory, yet symbiotic – much like modern femininity. Harmonious when least expected to be, the collection gracefully captures the dichotomy of the very women it is designed for.