Now sitting at the top of the luxury pyramid, the longtime acolytes employed rich textures and sophisticated details to dandify their signature silhouettes.

Louis Vuitton men's creative director, Pharrell Williams, drew his audience to a rear courtyard of the Louvre Museum after dark on Tuesday for a fall-winter catwalk show, kicking off Paris Fashion Week with a line-up of jazzed up streetwear.

On Tuesday evening of Paris Fashion Week, the menswear set made the now-traditional pilgrimage from Auralee’s temple of elegance and grace to the Louis Vuitton Men’s show. The