Louis Vuitton turned The Frick Collection into one of New York’s most watched fashion addresses last night, presenting the Women’s Cruise 2027 collection by Nicolas Ghesquière inside the Upper East Side museum. The setting gave the evening a rare cultural charge, placing a major luxury runway show inside one of the city’s most recognizable art institutions.
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Zendaya led the celebrity arrivals, bringing the kind of red carpet attention that now follows every major Louis Vuitton appearance she makes. Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Connelly, Alicia Vikander, Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams, Chloë Sevigny, Emily Blunt, and Ava DuVernay added the evening’s strongest Hollywood presence, turning the front row into a study of star power across generations.
The guest list extended far beyond traditional film circles. Chase Infiniti, Felix, Hoyeon, Ouyang Nana, Liu Yifei, Gingle Wang, Anna Lambe, Lily Collias, Hannah Einbinder, Sadie Soverall, Bella Maclean, Ella Rubin, Emily Alyn Lind, Sasha Spielberg, Akari Takaishi, and Veronika Slowikowska all joined the evening, reflecting the house’s wide cultural reach. Their presence gave the show the energy of a full celebrity gathering, where every arrival added another layer to the visual language around the collection.
Music also played a strong role in the room. Danielle Haim and Este Haim attended, while Alana Haim stepped onto the runway for her debut, wearing an embroidered sundress from the collection. Zaho de Sagazan, Awich, and Lena Mahfouf also appeared among the guests, bringing different audiences into the same Louis Vuitton conversation. That mix mattered, since Ghesquière framed the collection around New York’s shifting identities, especially the movement between uptown polish and downtown attitude.
The Frick setting sharpened that idea. Ghesquière drew from his first encounter with New York in 1989, when the city’s creative intensity left a lasting mark on him. For Cruise 2027, he returned to that memory through a collection shaped by the city’s codes, social contrasts, and constant self-invention. Keith Haring served as a central reference, connecting the designer’s interest in downtown art culture with the museum’s formal Upper East Side environment.
The celebrity attendance carried its own story. Louis Vuitton gathered actresses, musicians, dancers, artists, models, and cultural figures in one room, creating a front row that felt carefully constructed around influence and image. Misty Copeland brought dance into the mix, while artist Tschabalala Self added a direct connection to contemporary art. Marina Foïs, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Vimala Pons, and other guests expanded the evening’s international tone.
Louis Vuitton treated the show as a cultural event, while the guest list gave it immediate visibility. At The Frick Collection, Ghesquière explored New York through art, memory, and style codes. In the front row, Zendaya, Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Hoyeon, Felix, and the wider guest list turned the Cruise 2027 presentation into a celebrity moment with beauty, fashion, and performance moving through the same frame.
