The show underscored one of the strongest themes for summer 2013: geometry, redrawing in straight lines the shapely female body.
As it is Vuitton, there also has to be an exceptional set, and the designer Marc Jacobs replaced last season’s vintage railroad cars with two pairs of up-or-down escalators, installed in a giant tent just for this show.
Mr. Jacobs played with squares, slicing them into blocks large and small, offering a game of checkers on dresses short and perky, or ankle-length and lean.
The colors were mostly black and white, but included spring green and the buttercup yellow that also covered the floor.
Like the dots of last season, these graphics were inspired by an artist: Daniel Buren and his columns arranged in a grid at the Palais Royale.
“I’ve always loved them,” said Mr. Jacobs, who married the artistic geometry with the squares that have been an LV motif — the Damier — since 1888. Those checks replaced entirely the traditional monogram on the famous Vuitton bags. NYTIMES
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