Swooping like a bold and beautiful bird – a trifle wounded by age – the abandoned TWA building at New York’s Kennedy airport suddenly came back to life.https://www.instagram.com/p/BxN8T0GhOam/?utm_source=ig_embedWith its interior filled with a tangle of greenery to challenge the dull and oh-so-familiar departure boards, the empty building had a magic to it, as models for the Louis Vuitton fashion show walked around the enormous space.
It might have seemed the ultimate folly: a fabled French brand presenting its Cruise collection in New York – but never quite making it to Manhattan.

Yet the concept seemed to energise Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière, who sent out a powerful collection in which beauty was touched with irony. Think of a series of short and snappy dresses where the upper half had a wing of fabric around the shoulders; or a historic flower pattern was cut into a bodice as though it were pieced together from 18th-century curtains.