Just days after an unexploded World War II bomb near Paris’ Gare du Nord briefly stole headlines, a different kind of spectacle unfolded across the street: Louis Vuitton’s fashion show extravaganza Monday evening.

Louis Vuitton opened its fall/winter 2025 show with the sound of an engine revving and flashing lights. Models raced down the runway in a venue set up to resemble a train station, dreamed up by set designer Es Devlin.

"The fall-winter 2025-2026 collection pulls into a station where all emotions converge," the show notes read at Louis Vuitton yesterday. Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton's creative director of womenswear since 2013,