Louis Vuitton's extravagant show, which featured a steam engine train, closed out Paris fashion week in style. In a big-budget production, the house that made its name and built its early fortune with leather luggage wheeled out a steam-spewing locomotive on tracks at the Louvre Museum for its Fall/Winter show.
Models descended from the life-size replica Orient Express dressed as bourgeois dames in tall Edwardian hats. Each was trailed by a valet carrying - naturellement - Louis Vuitton hat boxes, vanity cases, and petite valises in crocodile and embroidered sequins.
