
Louis Vuitton: Creative director Nicolas Ghesquière has taken guests to the Louvre’s Cour Lefuel, Pavillon de l’Horloge and Cour Marly, and for S/S 2019 he continued his tour of the famed Paris museum, erecting a futuristic runway set in the centre of its Cour Carrée. Ghesquière is renowned for his interplanetary persuasion, and his runway was made up of a series of spaceship-worthy glass corridors, which periodically illuminated into life.

Hermès: Drawing on its equestrian heritage, the French maison took guests to the races for S/S 2019, with a show held at the Longchamp Racecourse inside Paris’ Bois de Boulogne. The Parisian brand’s women’s artistic director Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski collaborated with special events company villa eugénie on a sleek cloud-capturing set, with panels of mirror reflecting the evening sky overhead. Blue sky thinking indeed. Photography: Matthieu Raffard

Chanel: In recent seasons, we’ve had Chanel show sets evoking autumnal woodland forests, cruiseliners and the coursing waterfalls of the Gorges du Verdon, but for S/S 2019, Karl Lagerfeld had more beach-bound inspiration in mind. The creative director imagined a paradisal getaway inside the Grand Palais in Paris, complete with sand, sea and even a rustic beach hut. Piña Coladas at the ready. Photography: Olivier Saillant

Rick Owens: For his Tower of Babel-inspired open-air show set at the Palais De Tokyo in Paris, Owens erected a pyre in the centre of vast classical statue-lined runway. In the middle of the show the pyre spontaneously burst into flames, casting a warm glow onto his pagan worshipper-like models.

Marni: From Francesco Risso, we’ve had gymnasium-inspired sets with exercise ball seating, and show spaces inspired by junk yards, but for Marni’s S/S 2019 women’s show in Milan, the creative director was more recline-inclined. The designer created a show set lined with single and double beds, and an array of different duvets and pillows. Guests assembled on beds to watch the show, with sleepy editors wishing they could catch forty winks after it had finished.

Coach: Creative director Stuart Vevers bought a punch of prehistoric pizzazz to the American brand’s S/S 2019 show set in New York, with a huge rusting dinosaur sculpture looming in its centre. Vevers often looks to US iconography as part of his exploration of the brand – from prairie landscapes, to the plains of Texas Panhandle – and for spring, he was inspired by Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the site of many prehistoric fossil discoveries.