Louis Vuitton Menswear Formal Spring/Summer 2026 Collection
This exquisite expression of style reestablishes the codes of a preceding New Formal Collection, an interpretation of Men's Creative Director Pharrell Williams's distinctive vocabulary and current obsessions, as well as Louis Vuitton's unmistakable signatures.
Timeless Businesswear is defined by direction and intentionality, showing the potency of nuance in power dressing. Classic and sophisticated jackets, trousers, and light overcoats in brushed wool and wool-cashmere blends allow for layering over an array of crisp shirting options.
Etched horn buttons, small LV medallions, and tonal jacquard patterns of a repeated LV or a pinstripe made up of LVs subtly nod to the appeal of branded consistency. Smart yet understated, these silhouettes are seasonless in spirit, designed to withstand the tempo of modern schedules in metropolises.
The Sorbonne line for the first time sees a High Derby style. It, along with the classic Loafer, is offered now in rich brown suede. The beloved Major Loafer in glazed leather is reintroduced with a streamlined face and an embossed Marque L. Vuitton Deposée signature on its upper.
Modern Tailoring challenges the structure of the suit by incorporating other iconic shapes, such as the button-flap pocket workwear blouson, the hooded blouson, the high-collared tracksuit jacket, the half-zipped wool sweater, the knit blazer, and even a tailored notch lapel trucker, with denim-style metal buttons.
This bold mix-and-match approach inspires an evolved understanding of meeting the dress code. Here, where formality does not in any way equal rigidity, newness arrives through proportion, details, and texture. Crewneck sweaters, polos, shawl collar cardigans, and shirting with short and long sleeves round out the selection.
Each is seen in luxurious materials, from a monogram jacquard trans-seasonal wool to a cashmere denim blend, or workwear flannel. Indelible branded details include embossed leather patches and the monogram flower as embroidery or rivet.
Quietly expressive outerwear expands functionality within formalwear parameters. A smart, water-repellent wool fabric and sharp accents elevate a snap-button, quilted down blouson and a versatile, three-in-one parka with detachable, reversible gilet. Cashmere, vicuña, and supple leather bring a workwear-style shearling into a decidedly higher end. Credits: Louis Vuitton Credits: Louis Vuitton
Footwear is both traditional and intrepid. The LV Flex line, in Derby, Loafer, and Chelsea Boot styles, each with either a rubber or leather sole, features an exceptional Goodyear Flex construction that combines traditional craftmanship with an innovative cork-filled base. Each pair reflects the timeless appeal of British shoemaking and Louis Vuitton signifiers, such as Monogram Eclipse canvas details on the back.
The effortless yet undeniably classy Kensington Derby and Loafer are reintroduced in glazed and gradient Monogram-printed Spazzolato calf leather and Monogram flower-stamped rubber outsole.
The LV Oxford Loafer in glazed leather now boasts a newly designed buckle inspired by the Capucines Bag's perimeter-defining hardware. The shoe's front strap is affixed with a jewelry-like piece, engraved on its top edge with a Louis Vuitton signature and single Monogram flower.
The more rugged Bastille Derby and Combat Boot are now seen in a supple yet strong Scotch-grained calf. The line combines craft details of a classic country brogue (its perforations cut in the shape of Monogram flowers) with the thick rubber (Vuitton-stamped) tread, (Damier-embossed) neoprene backing, and mesh lining of modern military footwear. Each is marked with an LV Heritage silver pin.
A super-supple, worn-in calf leather LV Trainer is introduced as a formal option, in monochromatic vintage-effect black or white. The elaborately constructed upper is marked with the line's Louis Vuitton script and 54 signatures, on reworked reinforcements that result in exceptional flexibility and lightness.
Evening Attire steps confidently into any black-tie celebration, showcasing the House's savoir-faire and emphasis on individuality. Moments that demand presence might benefit from an enigmatic collarless jacket, flared or drawstring tailored trousers, strass-set buttons, LV-shaped cufflinks, and pearl detailing.
Rich materiality is expressed, for example, via intricate French knot embroidery forming a pointillist, textured tonal monogram in delicate grey, showstopping Damier flocking, fluid silk blend separates with a monogram-enhanced pajama stripe, or a timeless, three-piece, 100% virgin wool tuxedo.
The Grenelle Richelieu, in gradient Monogram-lasered, Blake construction, round leather-laced patent leather, and the Minister Derby, in gradient Damier glazed, textile-laced calf with a Monogram flower-stamped sole, each cut an elegant, unmissable footwear figure.
This Louis Vuitton Formal Collection, which launches in August of 2025, is specially designed with aspiration and achievement in mind, destined for the places where successful men go, for business, pleasure, and special occasion. Through an uncanny attention to detail, classic menswear is offered its own agenda, calling for ultimate refinement without pretention. Credits: Louis Vuitton Credits: Louis Vuitton
To compliment this collection, the permanent LV Aerogram line has been reimagined with modern practicality in mind, seeing business travel and everyday meetings as opportunities for occasion dressing.
Sleek, softer lines and even more understated signatures are seen in supple yet wear-resistant waxy grained calf that shows its fine quality through leather straps and trimmings, reinforced with matte, tone-on-tone hardware and topstitching.
An embossed V takes inspiration from both the name Vuitton and the arrow shape seen on airplane tarmacs, a nod to travel heritage. Magnetized front flaps and multiple exterior and interior zipped pockets ensure a perfect fit for today's most used electronic devices and personal belongings, focusing on a lightweight, ergonomic, and protective essential.
Updated styles and new introductions to the line include the Fastline and Discovery Work Backpacks, the Speed and Boarding Messengers, the Keepalls 50 and 35, the Cabin Tote, the Gate Briefcase, the Avenue Sling PM, the Weekender, and the rolling Horizon Business.
The Duo Pouch, designed with today's anywhere-goes meeting in mind, fits up to two laptops or tablets and provides a padded inner pocket roomy enough for external hardware such as chargers, headphones, cords, stands, and remote keypads.
A small leather goods selection reimagines the Takeoff Pouch, the Brazza, the Marco, the Victor, the Multiple, the Zippy Horizontal, and the Pocket Organizer in a contemporary palette, adding Forest Green and Storm Blue leather options to the mix.
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Diamonds, Dior and the great outdoors — where the super-rich spend summer
It's mid-afternoon and the revolving wooden door into the orchid-scented lobby spins relentlessly. A young bellboy in the Giorgio Armani livery of Badrutt's Palace Hotel staggers in, laden with Dior shopping bags, followed by two giggling women in hijabs. A Brazilian woman with a Celine baseball cap pulled down over her eyes — who may not be a supermodel but certainly resembles one — begs her toddlers, dressed in sailor suits evoking the 'before' scenes from The Sound of Music, not to climb on their pile of LV monogram Louis Vuitton luggage. A thirtysomething man with teeth like glaciers and the textbook Eurotrash uniform of chinos, loafers and no socks interrogates the patient concierge about which hiking trail has the most Instagram-worthy views. In Victorian times, Switzerland was a renowned summer destination where aristocracy inhaled pure air and admired lightly snow-frosted peaks. But in 1864 the local hotelier Johannes Badrutt bet some English tourists they'd love the region even more in winter; if not he'd reimburse them. Thirty-two years later his son, Caspar, opened Badrutt's, since when the hotel and the Swiss Alps in general have been the winter hotspot for the jet set — JFK, John Lennon, Alfred Hitchcock (you can stay in the suite where he is said to have been inspired to make The Birds) all wintered here. • Discover our full guide to Switzerland With characteristic Swiss discretion the hotel won't disclose the identities of any present-day guests, but Hugh Grant, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell — not to mention assorted royals, including the King — have been spotted on the pistes here. In summer, natürlich, everyone would traditionally decamp to St Tropez, Mykonos and the Costa Smeralda. Yet in recent years, with resorts such as these becoming increasingly sweltering (and their beaches more and more packed), the glitterati are shunning their familiar summer getaways and instead choosing to embrace the trend for 'coolcations' in the Alps. Last year Switzerland Tourism reported a 3.9 per cent increase in international tourism on 2023 levels. This summer numbers are forecast to rise another 2 per cent, with even sharper rises in non-European visitors, including an 11 per cent spike from the US. When I arrive in St Moritz — where the travel adviser Virtuoso reported a 153 per cent year-on-year increase in summer bookings in 2024 — it's 33C in London and 46C in Spain and forest fires are raging in Turkey. More and more friends are returning from Greek villas forswearing the high-summer Med for ever after having to stay indoors between 10am and 5pm to avoid the rays. Yet here in the Alps it's a pleasant 24C. The mountain sun bounces off glacial particles in Lake St Moritz, making the sapphire water sparkle like Elizabeth Taylor's bejewelled décolleté (another former Badrutt's regular). On the terrace of Le Relais restaurant (the hotel has five others), I'm immediately served the first of what will be many glasses of fizz ('In St Moritz champagne is like water,' one local tells me). Below, I spot four Indian children running on the jade lawns, pursued by their bodyguard. Their parents lounge, Aperols in hand, against the massage jets of the heated water in the 200 sq m outdoor pool. Finishing touches are being put to brand-new padel courts. The recent transformation of Badrutt's garden into a playground for adults and children is a response to demand for a resort hotel at altitude, with all the upsides of the Med but none of the stickiness. At 1,856m (6,089ft) above sea level, you can sleep with your windows open and — although the heat from the sun is deceptively powerful — sit outside at midday. 'When I first came here in 2008 the summer season was super-slow — it was just European visitors, maybe the odd American,' Richard Leuenberger, the hotel's managing director, says in Le Grand Hall. The restaurant is all antler-bedecked wood panelling and even what is thought to be a Raphael Madonna, though you'd barely notice it, distracted by views of the snow-frosted Engadin mountains. 'But in the past three years the summer has become super-international — they're coming from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, from Brazil, from India, a lot from both US coasts, who are often 'doing' Europe and want to relax.' Leuenberger has also noted a shift in how guests — especially the younger generation of crypto bros — spend summer. 'Previously people just wanted to sit on the terrace — the Middle East clientele in particular really love it when it rains,' he says. 'But now people want to get out there. They play tennis, they hike, they ride, they ebike — some doing the hard, steep trails but others just going around the lake for an hour, enjoying being in nature. They sail, windsurf, kitesurf and paddleboard, they go whitewater rafting …' • More great hotels in Switzerland To the paranoid one-percenters, the huge plus point of St Moritz is that all this can be done in absolute safety. 'People can walk around the lake in their diamonds and not worry,' one staff member tells me. I'd long been deterred from visiting St Moritz, not only because my non-designer wardrobe would mark me out as someone Elizabeth Hurley might describe as 'civilian', but also by the three-and-a-half-hour train journey from Zurich airport, involving at least two changes. But since the final leg is on the clean and uncrowded Bernina Express, which runs on part of a Unesco world heritage railway, this enhances the trip — there are views of crags, glaciers, gorges and mint-fresh streams more dramatic than an episode of Succession. It also doesn't hurt that from St Moritz station hotel guests enjoy a transfer in a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, a present to Badrutt's Palace from Queen Elizabeth II (she never stayed there, but her eldest son has been a regular). Still, that's not enough enticement for most of the hotel's guests, 80 per cent of whom arrive at nearby Samedan airport, the only non-Schengen international airport in the Alps accommodating private aircraft. 'Big planes from Sao Paulo can travel here in ten hours,' Leuenberger says. 'You can drive straight to the plane [for the return leg]. In terms of convenience it's very, very different to other airports.' He points to an Afghan hound with a party from Los Angeles that is stretched like a rug across the chequerboard floor. 'We'll often get six dogs on a plane with 30 people.' • Most beautiful places in Switzerland Guests also frequently bring along their cars. 'Middle Eastern visitors will fly in their Bentleys and Ferraris,' a hotel driver tells me. They rarely use them during their stay — rather, the attraction appears to be the garage, which offers a complimentary valet service, allowing them to return home with their supercar spotless. Another lure is the shopping. Across the street from the hotel's lobby is its luxury mall (the highest above sea level in the world), featuring Prada, Hermès, LV and Dior. It is connected to the hotel via an underground passageway. 'I love the tunnel, it's so discreet,' a Korean-American man tells me in the lift. 'If you want, say, a selection of clothes from Celine brought to your suite at midnight, we can do that,' Leuenberger says. 'And often brands like Cartier have pieces you can only buy here. So even when your girlfriend has everything you can still buy her something.' A Badrutt's Palace holiday habit is passed down. Generations of European aristos have tasted their first caviar and lobster in its restaurants (even Chesa Veglia, the hotel pizzeria, in a converted cow barn, offers optional truffle shavings on everything). The old guard are profoundly attached to the Wes Anderson-like vibe of the 156-room main hotel, complaining if there is the merest of tweaks to the pattern of the bone china teacups, according to Leuenberger. Last year the hotel opened its 25-room Serlas Wing, aimed at a younger crowd, with wallpaper, headboards and curtains by Loro Piana and design by Antonio Citterio (their families own local chalets). 'Grandparents stay in the main wing; their grandchildren are here [in Serlas] — everyone's happy,' a staff member tells me. • Best spots to visit in Switzerland The extravagance of Badrutt's Palace may sound vulgar, but what sets it apart from most other White Lotus-style establishments (though, frankly, the hotels featured in the popular TV series seem downmarket in comparison) is its joie de vivre. Many of the staff have worked here for decades and other visitors are utterly relaxed by this cocoon of opulence. The tiny Renaissance Bar is packed with bankers and entrepreneurs, laughing uproariously while waving their Cuban cigars (in this canton smoking is permitted indoors with the correct ventilation). The head barman, Matteo Oddo, remembers everybody's name and cocktail order — mine is a St Moritzino, comprising vodka, Cointreau, orgeat syrup and champagne and a mere £32, compared with the £446 stardust bellini, which includes gold powder and Dom Pérignon 2008. 'Officially we close at midnight,' Oddo tells me, winking. 'That maybe happens four times a year.' In winter guests usually move on from Renaissance to the basement nightclub. Daytimes are frequently spent raving too, to big-name DJs at Paradiso, the hotel's club a cable car ride up the mountain. 'Everyone's in here clubbing; the slopes are empty,' says the manager, Benedict Schempf. In summer, though, the DJs are all in Ibiza. We walk to Paradiso, past meadows where cows are being released from lorries after their winter hibernation, bells clanging as they dash about the buttercup-strewn grass. Our lunch of Swiss cheeses, cured meats, fondue (off menu, after I decide to shun the lobster and chips option) and — obviously — champagne is only partially burnt off on the downward descent. 'Winter is so crazy. Most people prefer St Moritz in summer — it's more relaxed,' Schempf says. 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I bought a real Louis Vuitton handbag from Japanese eBay & saved £1,050 – it came within 4 days & I'm not the only one
She managed to save over £1,000 on her designer item BAG IT I bought a real Louis Vuitton handbag from Japanese eBay & saved £1,050 – it came within 4 days & I'm not the only one IT'S the ultimate fashion fantasy - a real Louis Vuitton handbag for a fraction of the retail price. But for a growing number of savvy shoppers, it's not a fantasy - it's a reality, and they're finding their epic bargains on Japanese eBay. 2 Lauran showed off her latest designer find Credit: Tiktok/@ One of the latest to join the trend is a TikToker who shared her incredible experience of saving £1,050 on a pre-loved Louis Vuitton bag. In a video that has since gained 326.9k views after three days of being shared, Lauran, 25, who is known as ' on TikTok, revealed how she purchased the bag from a Japanese seller on eBay, had it shipped to the UK in just four days, and confirmed its authenticity. So, how is this possible? Japan has a thriving market for authenticated, pre-owned luxury goods. Strict laws and a culture of meticulous care mean that second-hand items are often in excellent condition. Combined with the strong yen, this creates a unique opportunity for international shoppers to find designer pieces at prices that are often significantly lower than those in Europe or the US Revealing an unboxing video, Lauran revealed she ordered a second-hand Louis Vuitton City Bag PM size which is worth £1,600. But rather than paying the full whack, Lauran paid £550 for the dream accessory. Unboxing it, the fashion fan revealed that it was 'literally perfect'. A quick search on eBay brought up a flood of listings - all from Japan. It was here she discovered a thriving, regulated market for authenticated second-hand luxury goods. I'm a fashion fan and found viral fleece in Dunnes Stores with stunning floral design, perfect for layering Her seller of choice, "Brand Off Tokyo," was a certified professional with an impeccable reputation, boasting 99.6% positive reviews and over 43,000 bags sold. She explained that in Japan, strict laws prohibit the sale of counterfeit items, and sellers are required to provide a used item license number, offering an extra layer of assurance. The bag, which she snagged for £550, was described as "very obviously used," but to her delight, it arrived in what she called "incredible" condition. She found the perfect balance of style and practicality, with the PM size accommodating her 13-inch MacBook Air - making it the ideal new work companion. But perhaps the most jaw-dropping part of the story was the speed. 2 She couldn't believe the price she got the bag for Credit: Tiktok/@ The bag, which was estimated to take two weeks to arrive, made the journey from Japan to the UK in just four days. But she advised fellow shoppers to be mindful of the import tax, which for the UK, is a 20% charge on top of the original price, along with a small handling fee. Even with the added cost, she still made a colossal saving. Her video gained 15.2 likes with 272 people rushing to the comments section to share their thoughts. One wrote: 'I've got two Gucci bags on their way from Japanese eBay.' Someone asked: 'Can you recommend how?' To which they replied: 'Search what you're after and amend the filters to worldwide and it will show Japanese sellers! "I use brand revolution by NEXT INNOVATION and brand street Tokyo!' Another said: 'I bought a mulberry bag for £30.'
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River Island's new £56 weekend bag looks just like Louis Vuitton's £3.5k holdall
River Island just dropped a new range of bags that are giving Louis Vuitton vibes for a fraction of the price, including a £56 weekend bag to rival the designer's £3.5k holdall Summer is the season of getaways, where it's a sunny holiday abroad or a weekend staycation, which means the need for some great luggage has never been higher. That's why River Island's latest collaboration has come at the perfect time, as it launches its Morgan X River Island collection, featuring a myriad of bags just in time for your next trip. One of the standout pieces in the new collab is the Brown Morgan Lips Monogram Print Holdall Bag, which you can pick up for £56. As well as being a great bag in its own right, it also has a striking resemblance to Louis Vuitton's iconic cherry print LV x TM Keepall Bandoulière 45 Bag, which costs a much pricier £3550. Similar to the designer holdall, the Morgan Lips Monogram Print Holdall Bag comes in a dark chocolate brown colour, with a subtle repeat River Island monogram all over it in a light tan colour. It also features tan details like grab top handles, trim around the edges and buckled straps across the middle. Its stand-out signature design, though, is the lips print done by British artist Morgan Seaford, which appears all across the bag in various shades of red and pink in a hand-painted effect. You can also pick up a floral printed version, which features pink and white flowers and butterflies printed across it. The Morgan Lips Monogram Print Holdall Bag fastens with a zip top to keep everything secure, and even comes with a detachable cross body strap, making it easier to carry – especially when it's full to the brim. It also measures 27cm high, 43cm wide and 26cm deep, giving you plenty of space to pack everything you need for a weekend away. We also spotted some similar styles at Debenhams, with the Ikrush Indigo Checked Print Overnight Bag now on sale down from £50.99 to £33.99 and featuring a two-tone brown checkerboard print very similar to another of Louis Vuitton's designs. If you want something that's a true designer buy without breaking the bank, this Retro Duffel Bag from Tommy Hilfiger is also on sale for £65 down from £78. However if you want to check out the rest of the Morgan X River Island collection, you can pick up everything from cross body and shoulder bags to shopper totes and purses. Each style comes in a variety of different unique painterly designs, so you can add some fun and playfulness to your handbag collection.
