Louis Vuitton

Vuitton’s flat-topped, stackable trunks reinvented luggage for the railway age, and the Monogram canvas — designed in 1896 by his son Georges to foil counterfeiters — became the most recognized pattern in luxury. Fashion arrived comparatively late: Marc Jacobs launched the first ready-to-wear in 1997 and spent sixteen years splicing the house’s travel codes with art-world collaborations, from Murakami’s rainbow monograms onward.

Ghesquière’s womenswear treats time as raw material — space-age silhouettes cut against historical costume, staged in monumental settings from the Louvre to modernist landmarks — and his show’s closing slot has become Paris Fashion Week’s institutional finale. The house that packed the nineteenth century’s luggage now sets the tempo for fashion’s biggest stage.