LV Ski Collection Moves Après Ski Into Shearling and Tweed

Louis Vuitton's LV Ski Collection has a new après ski chapter, built from plush knits, the LV Arctic bucket hat, Fairy Tweed Capucines and a shearling trimmed All In BB. Louis Vuitton frames it as "an invitation to linger after the slopes," under the title Softer altitudes. The pieces are chosen for how they feel at the lodge, and shearling has run through the ski line's bags and hats since 2023.

2021 Was the Slope, 2023 Was the Lodge

Louis Vuitton launched LV Ski in 2021 as its first dedicated ski collection. By the Fall Winter 2023 edition the accessories were carrying the pitch: wraparound LV medallion scarves, ribbed beanies, Monogram flannel caps and a shearling bucket hat, with shearling also on backpacks and the handles of the Capucines and Chelsea boots. The Capucines was already a featured bag in that campaign, and the same edition carried an après ski shoe, the LV Easy, an open back slip on in faux fur made for the walk from the lift to the lodge door. Louis Vuitton's current catalogue still lists a LV Ski Monogram Fleece Bob among its women's bucket hats, so the line has already made its bucket hat in shearling and in fleece before the Arctic arrives.

The 2024 edition said the plan out loud. Louis Vuitton built its women's ready to wear, shoes, leather goods and accessories for both the slope and après ski, gave the OnTheGo, Keepall and Coussin a frosted gradient finish, and paired the Monogram Carryall with shearling and suede. So the Arctic bucket hat and the shearling trimmed All In BB are not a new idea. They are the next pass at a material the line adopted three winters ago, now given a capsule of its own.

Tweed on a Capucines Is a Lodge Decision

Tweed is a woven wool cloth with a history on country estates, not on mountains, and Louis Vuitton has put it on the bag that carries the name of its own address. The Capucines is named for the Rue Neuve des Capucines, where the house opened its first Paris store in 1854. Dressing that bag in Fairy Tweed and sending it to a ski collection tells the buyer it is expected to be carried indoors, to a table, with the boots already off.

That is a specific read of the product, and it explains the knits. Plush texture is the language of a capsule meant to be worn when the skiing is over. The description lists textures, not technical claims, and the contrast with last year's men's capsule is sharp.

Twelve Garments With Ventilation Specs

Pharrell Williams presented the men's ski capsule in October 2025 as twelve garments with a technical brief: waterproof and water repellent materials, ventilation systems and insulated compartments for masks and phones. Two ski suits led it, one in the LV Tartan Pixel motif and one covered in the LV Cursive signature. The accessories included the LV Yeti snow boot, LV Frost ski masks with interchangeable lenses and a Speedy P9 in grey shearling.

Even there, shearling reached the bag. The Speedy P9 and the All In BB make shearling the one material that has crossed from the men's slope capsule to the après ski chapter. Williams has run Louis Vuitton menswear since February 14, 2023, so the ski line has lived through his whole tenure. The slope pieces get specifications. The lodge pieces get a hat, a knit and two bags.

A Year With a Weather Calendar

Skiing is one of three weather and motion stories Louis Vuitton has told this year. In September the house revived its Dolomites Classic Run after fourteen years, entering 22 vintage cars in a 600 kilometer regularity race from Villa Pisani near Venice to Monza. In July it introduced Silk Tech, a twill of 51 percent silk and 49 percent reclaimed nylon that resists water and creasing, for the Fall Winter 2026 menswear collection.

Read together, the three releases show a house treating weather and motion as design briefs. The rally is about cars and distance, Silk Tech is about water, and the ski capsule is about the hours after the cold. Each one gives the monogram a job outside a city street.

LV Ski began in 2021, and the shearling bucket hat on its 2023 accessories is the ancestor of the Arctic bucket hat that arrives now.