Pharrell brought Louis Vuitton to the Centre Pompidou this season, transforming the gallery’s courtyard into a big game of snakes and ladders. The beloved boardgame originated in India, the next stop on the designer’s globe-trotting adventures. Louis Vuitton is a house built on the thrill of travel which Pharrell has lent into throughout his tenure. Last season he set his sights on Tokyo, teaming up with long-term collaborator Nigo to fuse Parisian flair with Japanese finery. Leading up to this collection, he ventured through Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur, envisioning the sort of clothes that illuminate “the influence of modern Indian sartorialism on the global contemporary wardrobe”.

The collection, he said, was based around this idea of “lived-in elegance”. Tailoring was cut loose and easy-going. Suits came in gorgeous chocolate browns paired with blue shirts, and boyish shorts were paired with leather flip flops and buttery leather bombers. Many of the clothes looked as if they’d been bathed in the intense glow of the sun, like dusty-hued denim twinsets and beige cargo trousers that ballooned at the leg. Flourishes of Indian craftsmanship could be seen in embroidery that danced along the neckline of a pistachio puffer coat and the sleeves of a slender blazer, all while a standout grey suit came in a metal woven check.

LV die-hards will be thrilled to see the return of the maison’s bag and luggage collection originally designed for Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited which sees children book-esque palm trees and wild animals spring across trunks and holdalls, the print for the first time making its way onto similarly tan-hued overshirts and cashmere coats. While they could be seen as cinematic in their elegance, these are pieces grounded in bringing a sense of occasion to everyday dressing, wherever in the world that might be.

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