Paris (AFP)

Activists from Extinction Rebellion broke into the Louis Vuitton fashion show at the Louvre on Tuesday to denounce the impact of the fashion industry on climate change, on the last day of Paris Fashion week.

"Overconsumption = extinction", could we read on a poster unrolled by an activist of this international movement of civil disobedience in the fight against climate change.

Louis Vuittn fashion show in Paris, October 5, 2021 Christophe ARCHAMBAULT AFP

She landed on the podium in a gallery of the Louvre in the middle of a parade before being ousted by a security guard, noted an AFP photographer.

Thirty activists from Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the Earth and Youth For Climate are behind this action, two of whom were arrested, according to their press release.

Activists demand the government to impose "an immediate reduction in production levels in the sector while 42 clothes per capita were marketed in France in 2019", according to the same source.

Questioned by AFP, the Louis Vuitton house did not react immediately.

Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris, October 5, 2021 Christophe ARCHAMBAULT AFP

For this first post-Covid parade in front of the public, the artistic director of the women's collections, Nicolas Ghesquière, has chosen the theatrical aesthetic.

Basket dresses, long feather capes and goggles opened the parade to better underline the play of volumes in very modern looks from the couturier, master of the cut.

Tuxedos become oversized or are declined in jeans, short skirts and riding pants take volume at the level of the hips.

"Time dissolves functions and codes, it brings together the changing rooms (...) The humble uniform knows the splendor", writes the stylist in the note of intention of the parade.

Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris, October 5, 2021 Christophe ARCHAMBAULT AFP

The women's ready-to-wear week ended Tuesday in Paris with a parade paying tribute to Alber Elbaz, an Israeli-American fashion designer who was artistic director of Lanvin, who died of the Covid in April.

More than 40 fashion houses have joined design studio AZ Factory, his latest project, to create looks in his homage.

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