La Beauté
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton is a house founded in 1854. It is 171 years old. It had never made makeup — until August 29, 2025. The collection is called La Beauté Louis Vuitton. It contains 55 lipsticks. LV, in Roman numerals, is 55. Nothing in this house happens without intention.
1854 · 2025 · The Longest Wait In Luxury Beauty
Louis Vuitton's earliest trunks, designed in 1854, contained cushioned compartments to protect fragrances during transatlantic journeys. By the 1920s, the house was producing vanity cases — tortoiseshell hair brushes, ivory mirrors, compacts, glass fragrance bottles — objects of personal care elevated to the level of luggage in their precision and material quality. The house has sold fine fragrances since 2016. It has never, until 2025, sold makeup. "Hard as it may be to believe, Louis Vuitton has never officially ventured into makeup — until now," wrote W Magazine at the collection's launch. The line between belief and fact, in this instance, is simply the house's own extraordinary patience: the conviction that a product category should not be entered until the conditions for entering it at the highest possible level have been fully established. Those conditions were established by the appointment of Dame Pat McGrath as Creative Director of Cosmetics, announced in March 2025, following four years of private development.
Dame Pat McGrath · Twenty Years Backstage · Four Years In Secret
Pat McGrath has created the makeup for Louis Vuitton's runway shows for over twenty years — every look, every season, every model's face that has crossed the Nicolas Ghesquière runway. She knows the house's design language from the inside: the Monogram, the Damier, the Toile, the proportions of the luggage, the quality of the leather, the particular warmth of Monogram Rouge — that muted warm red that marries the brown of the Monogram canvas with classical lipstick red. When Louis Vuitton began to consider entering makeup seriously, McGrath was the only conceivable choice — not because of her reputation (which is considerable: she has been named the most influential makeup artist in the world, awarded a DBE for services to the fashion and beauty industries) but because she had been living inside the house's visual world for two decades. The four years she spent developing La Beauté Louis Vuitton in private were not preparation. They were the continuation of a conversation she had been having with the house since the late 1990s. "People have been asking me for years, 'When is makeup coming for Louis Vuitton?'" she told Vogue at the launch. "Now I can finally say it's happening."
LV Rouge is the collection's centerpiece and its most deliberate statement — 55 lipsticks in two finishes, the number chosen because LV in Roman numerals is 55. Twenty-seven in luminous satin, twenty-eight in velvety matte. The formula contains 85% skincare base: upcycled waxes from rose, jasmine, and mimosa flowers — the same flowers used in Louis Vuitton's Grasse fragrance atelier — combined with shea butter and hyaluronic acid. The matte formula provides twelve hours of vivid color; the satin version twenty-four hours of moisturization. The bullet carries the LV Monogram embossed on the lipstick itself. Three signature shades define the collection's emotional register: 896 Monogram Rouge — the muted warm red that marries Monogram canvas brown with classical lipstick red; 203 Rose Odyssée — the color of a Sienna rose; 854 Rouge Louis — a scarlet. Each lipstick carries a custom fragrance created by Jacques Cavallier Belletrud: rose, jasmine, and mimosa, the same raw materials that live in the flowers of Les Fontaines Parfumées in Grasse.
LV Baume is the daily ritual companion to LV Rouge — sheer, luminous, imbued with a delicate scent of mint and raspberry rather than the floral signature of the lipsticks. Ten shades, including clear, each delivering up to forty-eight hours of hydration from a shea butter and hyaluronic acid base. The three signature shades: 051 Monogram Touch — a sheer interpretation of Monogram Rouge, the brown-red canvas color in transparent form; 030 Tender Bliss — a delicate pink pearl; 020 Rose Essentiel — a timeless rosewood positioned as the daily essential, the one worn between occasions, between collections, between the morning coffee and the afternoon meeting. The Baume that Monogram Touch delivers is described by those who have worn it as effortlessly chic — "the French girl beauty that deceptively appears effortless."
LV Ombres — the eyeshadow quads — are organized around the principle Pat McGrath has applied to every makeup look she has created backstage at Louis Vuitton: three wearable everyday shades and one standout, the cinematic wildcard that transforms the ordinary into something unforgettable. Eight palettes, six finishes spanning ultra matte to glitter. The signatures: Harmonie 896 Monogram Rouge — burnished red, rich brown, caramel, the palette that corresponds to the lipstick of the same name; Harmonie 150 Beige Memento — ivory and golden bronze, echoing the patina of aged Louis Vuitton leather; Harmonie 250 Nude Mirage — soft elegant neutrals, the daily palette that disappears into the eye the way the best foundations disappear into skin. Each pan is individually magnetized and refillable. The formula contains plant-derived squalane and camelina flower oil extract. The shadows are "gentle on the eyes" in the same sense that LV Rouge is gentle on the lips: luxurious without effort, present without announcement.
The packaging of La Beauté Louis Vuitton was designed by Konstantin Grcic — the German industrial designer known for his approach to combining form and function at the level of architecture rather than product design. The cases are made primarily of aluminum and brass, materials chosen for their durability and their weight in the hand. The floral lock system — a mechanism that allows only La Beauté products to be inserted into the cases — is described by McGrath as "beautiful, almost like the insides of a watch." The Monogram flower appears on the lipstick tube and eyeshadow compact. "It was important to make a real object of desire," McGrath said, "a product that was made to be treasured, like the Louis Vuitton bag — heirloom worthy." The packaging is refillable: the case is bought once, the product is replaced. An object designed to be kept, not discarded.
The collaboration between Pat McGrath and Jacques Cavallier Belletrud on the scent of LV Rouge is, according to the house, a first for makeup — a luxury lipstick range whose fragrance is not incidental but composed, by the same master perfumer who creates Les Parfums Louis Vuitton and Les Extraits, from the same raw materials sourced from the same Grasse gardens. The LV Rouge lipsticks carry rose, jasmine, and mimosa — the flowers of Les Fontaines Parfumées, the Louis Vuitton atelier in Grasse. The LV Baume carries mint and raspberry, a lighter, fresher register. The scented lipstick is not a marketing gesture. It is a cross-métier collaboration between two of the house's most significant creative voices, applying to the face the same standard of olfactory quality that governs the fragrance portfolio. A lipstick that smells like Louis Vuitton's gardens. That is the proposition.
La Beauté Louis Vuitton launched alongside a dedicated line of small leather goods — mini Monogram canvas bags sized to hold a single lipstick or makeup brush, a case for blotting papers, limited-edition beauty pouches for a full makeup wardrobe. And, available by request, a full vanity trunk modeled on Pat McGrath's backstage beauty salon — the traveling studio from which she has produced the house's runway looks for twenty years, its drawers organized by product and color in the precise manner of a craftsman's workshop. The trunk connects La Beauté to the house's founding object — the trunk that Louis Vuitton made in 1854, the trunk that contained compartments for fragrance, the trunk that has been the house's design proposition from the beginning: that travel should be organized, beautiful, and built to last. The makeup collection is the newest compartment in the oldest trunk.
LV in Roman numerals is 55.
La Beauté Louis Vuitton launches with 55 lipsticks.
Nothing in this house happens without intention.
Pat McGrath spent four years
building a makeup collection in secret
for a house that spent 171 years
deciding it was ready to make one.
Louis Vuitton's entry into makeup is not, in any sense, a diversification. It is a continuation. The house that made trunks with fragrance compartments in 1854, that made vanity cases with ivory mirrors and tortoiseshell brushes in the 1920s, that made Les Parfums Louis Vuitton in 2016, has always understood beauty as part of the travel experience — as something that accompanies the journey rather than waiting at the destination. Pat McGrath's formulation of the La Beauté proposition echoes the house's own language precisely: "It's a beauty experience rooted in the art of travel. It's luxury that moves with you; it moves seamlessly. It's part of your everyday life. Beauty integrates into your rhythm, into your rituals, into your world." The lipstick that smells of Grasse jasmine and rose. The palette that echoes the patina of aged Monogram leather. The case that locks like the insides of a watch. These are not cosmetics that happen to carry a luxury brand name. They are objects designed to be kept, refilled, and carried — in the same spirit as the trunk that started everything.
1 East 57th Street · New York · The Debut
La Beauté Louis Vuitton launched globally on August 29, 2025, in selected Louis Vuitton stores worldwide — including the flagship at 1 East 57th Street in New York, where a dedicated pop-up unveiled the collection's full universe. The campaign was photographed by Steven Meisel and features Hoyeon — the house's ambassador — alongside models Ida Heiner, Chu Wong, and Awar Odhiang. Much of the collection sold out at launch and was subsequently restocked. The New York flagship received the full lineup: LV Rouge in all 55 shades, LV Baume in all ten, LV Ombres in all eight palettes, and the small leather goods line. The house that spent 171 years making trunks, vanity cases, and fine fragrance before making makeup arrived, on August 29, 2025, at the address it has occupied on 57th Street, with the most deliberate beauty debut in the history of luxury. It was worth the wait. It always is.
1 East 57th Street · New York, NY 10022
LV Rouge · 55 lipsticks · Satin & Matte · Monogram Rouge · Rose Odyssée · Rouge Louis
LV Baume · 10 shades · Monogram Touch · Tender Bliss · Rose Essentiel
LV Ombres · 8 palettes · Monogram Rouge · Beige Memento · Nude Mirage
Dame Pat McGrath — Creative Director, Cosmetics · Launched August 29, 2025
Founded Paris 1854 · louisvuitton.com/eng-us/beauty
Louis Vuitton made its first trunk in 1854.
It contained a compartment for fragrance.
In 1920, it made vanity cases with ivory mirrors.
In 2016, it made fine fragrance in Grasse.
In 2025, it made makeup — 55 lipsticks,
scented with the same flowers as its perfumes,
packaged in cases designed to be kept forever,
by the woman who had been waiting backstage
for twenty years.
The trunk is now complete.
LOUIS-VUITTON
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