Louis Vuitton’s Resort 2025 Show Was Portofino in the Philippines

A cinematic Riviera dream

At the edge of Manila Bay, where light falls long and gold over the sea, Louis Vuitton staged seduction. The Chairman’s Villa at Solaire Resort played host to the unveiling of their Men’s and Women’s 2025 collections, a gesture of luxury rendered with cinematic precision.

The collection, inspired by the Italian Riviera, arrives not merely as clothing but as an atmosphere. Flowing silhouettes in whisper-soft fabrics carry the languor of late afternoons in Portofino. A Tuscan floral theme runs like a thread through the garments, red and blue blossoms scattered with the restraint of a painter who knows precisely when to stop. The result is poetic without pretense: an homage to a region and its rhythms, filtered through the house’s unwavering eye for refinement.

It is, above all, a collection about leisure. The Capucines bag appears here in woven wicker, then again in mahogany leather: old-world craftsmanship softened by Riviera whimsy. Chain belts gleam with authority of house codes, while sunglasses, accented with golden nods to Vuitton’s archival trunk locks, turn even sun-shielding into a design decision.

The language of accessories

Then there is the Philippine-exclusive Capucines. Red crocodile leather, as vivid as a Manila sunset, paired with signature wicker, an audacious yet seamless merging of local color and French savoir faire. It is a statement of place and rarity, designed not to blend in but to anchor the collection with something unmistakably singular.

The men’s collection

Louis Vuitton's FW25 Men's Pre-Collection

Sharing the same rarefied air of the Chairman’s Villa was the Men’s FW25 Pre-Collection by Pharrell Williams. Presented in the same intimate showroom setting, the men’s collection offered a refined counterpoint to the women’s, charting a cross-continental wardrobe that moved from Paris to Miami in polished steps.

Previously explored in detail in our earlier article, the collection underscores Williams’ LVERS philosophy: a global network of style, where tailored codes adapt across borders. Here, surrounded by tropical foliage and open sky, that idea of travel, both literal and cultural, felt not only relevant but essential.

The villa as vessel

Through one set of doors, the third and final chapter of the Louis Vuitton x Murakami re-edition unfolds; a joyful resurrection of the Japanese artist’s iconic Cherry motif, 20 years after it first burst into the fashion canon.

And so Louis Vuitton’s Women’s Resort 2025 lands not with a bang, but with the rustle of silk and the faint scent of something in bloom. It is fashion as invitation: to escape, remember, and arrive again. Somewhere between Manila and Tuscany, the Maison sketches a new geography; one where the map is drawn not in borders, but in silhouettes.

Courtesy Louis Vuitton

Special thanks Jeanger Navarro-Ponti