Louis Vuitton presented its Spring-Summer 2025 Men’s Collection ob the rooftop of La Maison de l’UNESCO with a panoramic view of Paris and decorated with the flags of the world, emphasizing a celebration of the humans that co-inhabit the Earth. Constructed in 1958 in the name of uniting humanity in world peace through culture, the site provides the symbolic grounds for a convention of LVERS, the community at the heart of the creative ecosystem that defines the Louis Vuitton Studio Prêt-à-Porter Homme, its ateliers and collaborators.

Serenaded to the tones of Triumphus Cosmos”, a composition written by Pharrell Williams, the Men’s Creative Director reflected on the unifying spirit of the global mentality of Louis Vuitton within this collection. Activating the Maison’s mind-expanding travel gene, the collection illustrates the degrees of similarities that bind us together across the globe. Rendered in the nuances of skin tones of all the humans of the planet – each illuminated by the same sun – through tonal silhouettes crafted with intricate savoir-faire, the collection demonstrates the relationship between macro and micro views of humanity: a diverse species made of the same flesh and blood.

The Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2025 Men’s Show opens with a cinematic prelude directed by the creative collective Air Afrique, who also collaborated on graphics and patterns for the collection featured in the film. Founded in Paris in 2020, Air Afrique continues the legacy of the defunct Pan-African airline of the same name – airborne between 1961 and 2002 and known for supporting arts on the African continent – by highlighting Afro-diasporic arts, conversations and knowledge through multimedia formats and events.

The prelude imagines the diplomats that inhabit its hallways as children – the next generation – attending a lecture by the Swiss curator and art critic Simon Njami, who specialises in African contemporary art and photography. Centred on themes of unity in human diversity and the world of tomorrow, the film is an expression of the inter-generational message at the heart of Air Afrique, an African-French cultural platform dedicated to the expansion of Afro-diasporic arts, conversations and knowledge. “You are the future. The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to reinvent it. It’s up to you to reimagine it.”

Silhouettes are imbued with the archetypal codes of travellers. As the flying dandy, the pilot inspires elements of aviation dress from cropped tailored jackets and bombers to flight suits and camionneur-collared knitwear. The diplomat informs slender double-breasted coats and suits with the straight or flared sculpting of trousers. Every inch of every garment is heightened in savoir-faire, from the superfine woven facets of fabrics to the microscopic details of embroideries and buttons, a feature amplified in formalwear based on the globetrotting agent. The explorer inspires sophisticated interpretations of sportswear reflected in technical and functional expressions, while garments created in the image of football pay homage to the world’s most unifying game.

At a distance, silhouettes appear muted and monotone while, on closer inspection, intricate savoir-faire manifests with sensorial and sensory impact. The effect reflects on the idea of skin, seemingly tonal from afar but technically sophisticated up close. The study inspires a palette rendered in the nuances of skin tones of all the humans of the planet, including the deepest black developed by the Louis Vuitton Studio Prêt-à-Porter Homme.