Louis Vuitton Spring 2015 Collection Celebration

On Thursday evening, Louis Vuitton chairman and CEO Michael Burke opened the exhibition, “Series 2 Past, Present and Future” at 1135 North Highland Avenue in Los Angeles. The brand’s artistic director of women’s collections, Nicolas Ghesquière, arrived at the unveiling with French screen legends and fashion muses Catherine Deneuve and Charlotte Gainsbourg on his arm.

Now at the helm of the storied fashion house, Ghesquière, along with guests including Michelle Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Emilia Clarke, Alexa Chung, Michel Gaubert, and Peter Marino, helped celebrate an installation that embraced the modern vision of Louis Vuitton today with its long history, starting in 1854. The exhibition is laid out so that viewers can experience the LV brand in various environments think 3-D projections, mirrors, photo-collages, and videos, which bring to life a behind-the-scenes look at the brand.

Many of the guests took the opportunity to document the spectacle that is “Series 2” on their smartphones, while others simply drank champagne, snacked on hors d’oeurves, and snapped up kitschy LV stickers meant for the taking.

Model Liu Wen took videos of the life-size wall decals of models prepping backstage, while Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike just took it all in, remarking on how much she liked that portion of the exhibit. When asked who made her dress, she didn’t miss a beat, and quickly replied “Louis Vuitton,” a look that appeared to have walked straight off the runway, and in the exhibition’s “backstage” area it felt like it really could have right then and there.