Louis Vuitton takes Paris fashion week on mountain ride

Models wore mountain capes_ shepherds' hats and carried bags with bells attached to them as Louis Vuitton brought the curtain down on Paris fashion week with a back-to-nature show Tuesday.

Parading in the main Louvre courtyard_ with actors Zendaya and Ana de Armas in attendance_ the brand's artistic director Nicolas Ghesquiere said the aim was to take the well-heeled spectators back to founder Louis Vuitton's roots in the Jura mountains.

Louis Vuitton left the Jura region as a teenager to set up shop in Paris in 1837.

"For this show_ I really wanted to highlight the idea that nature is the greatest creator. It wasn't about imitating it_ but rather about sublimating nature_" Ghesquiere told journalists after the event entitled "Super Nature".

The French designer_ who used hemp-based faux fur for his coats_ said he wanted to highlight global "nomadism" through the patchwork dresses and wide rattan hats resembling inverted traditional baskets.

The show also highlighted the work of Ukrainian artist Nazar Strelyaev-Nazarko whose paintings were on the back of jackets and the front of skirts worn by Louis Vuitton models.

Ukrainian designer_ Lilia Litkovska_ who joined the Paris fashion week calendar this year_ presented her first show on the final day.

Litkovska said the deconstructed clothes and biker boot outfits with models walking the runway with headlamps were inspired by events in her war-stricken home country.

She said the inspiration was walking home from her Kyiv studio in complete darkness and bitter cold.

"I had a flashlight_ and there were people in the street across the street with me too. It's hard to explain_ but you feel you're not alone. You feel a sense of closeness in that absolute darkness. We crossed our beams_ and it was like a dialogue_ a silent dialogue_" she said.