At which Paris palace garden was Virgil Abloh's Louis Vuitton debut show staged?

Virgil Abloh’s Louis Vuitton debut show was staged in the gardens of the Palais-Royal in Paris.

Abloh presented his first Louis Vuitton menswear collection on June 21, 2018, for the Spring/Summer 2019 season. The runway ran through the Palais-Royal gardens and was designed around a vivid rainbow effect, making the location part of the show’s visual statement.

The appointment was a major moment in luxury fashion: Abloh, founder of the Milan-based label Off-White, became Louis Vuitton’s artistic director for menswear after Kim Jones. His debut connected the house’s established tailoring and leather-goods heritage with streetwear, youth culture and contemporary art references.

The Palais-Royal is a historic Paris complex built around a garden and arcades near the Louvre. It is not the Tuileries Palace, although the Tuileries Garden is also a famous fashion-show setting in Paris. Nor was the event staged at the Élysée Palace or the Grand Palais.