Louis Vuitton to showcase new installation in London

As the V&A closes its bestselling Alexander McQueen exhibition, a new fashion installation by Louis Vuitton is about to open.

Set in a former office block neighbouring Somerset House, the installation will span three floors and 13 rooms, giving a glimpse into the work behind Vuitton’s AW15 collection. Video footage from the show will be projected onto life-sized screens, emulating the view from the front row. The exhibition will conclude with a gallery of the house’s AW15 campaign which was shot by Juergen Teller and Bruce Weber.

“In this digital era, fashion shows are diffused online and immediately accessible for the public,” Vuitton’s artistic director of women’s collections Nicolas Ghesquière told businessoffashion.com, explaining the rationale behind the exhibition. “But it takes more than that to feel the ambience and share the intense creativity, energy and emotion around one show. This is what we would like to share with a large public worldwide. The exhibition is conceived as a total, physical and interactive immersion inside Louis Vuitton’s (AW15) fashion show."

Titled Series 3, the exhibition will open on September 21.