bijoy jain creates stage for louis vuitton ss26 mens present
A sprawling sport board of Snakes and Ladders set the stage for Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer season 2026 menswear present simply outdoors of The Centre Pompidou. Conceived by Indian architect Bijoy Jain, founding father of Studio Mumbai, the scenography reimagined the sq. as a playground of chance through the first day of the Paris Style Week, an enormous enjoying area animated by earthen hues and tactile particulars that guests moved by way of and round.
Marking his first collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Jain labored intently with males’s artistic director Pharrell Williams, who cited South Asia as a key inspiration for the gathering. Drawing from the sport’s historical origins in India, Jain described his imaginative and prescient for the set up as ‘a cosmic diagram… like a mandala, set within the thought of a sport the place all people has to ascend.’
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the runway nods to the gathering’s south asian inspiration
Studio Mumbai’s acknowledged architectural method to design and context comes by way of within the set’s execution, composed of earthen tones and textures that elevate the beloved board sport into an enormous spatial expertise. The present is staged throughout a sprawling 2,700-square-meter grid, with a number of vibrant serpents chopping by way of, their paths crossing with textile-rendered ladders that beckoned ascension. In the course of the night the delicate palette glows beneath the Pompidou’s iconic postmodern facade. ‘That’s set on this thought of a sport the place all people has to ascend,’ notes architect Bijoy Jain.
