Paris Day Two: Louis Vuitton, Courrèges, Dries Van Noten

Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2026 show played out to a soundtrack of Cate Blanchett seductively intoning David Byrne’s lyrics for “This Must Be the Place” by Talking Heads, because when Nicolas Ghesquiere asks a multiple award-winning actress to speak on his behalf, she says yes. That’s some kind of influence. As is the option of presenting said show in the recently overhauled apartments in the Louvre that were once the summer domicile of Anne of Austria, Queen of France, Louis…