Architect Bijojo Jain converted Louis Wuiton’s runway into snake-shaped games in Paris

What do Bijoy Jain, Paarel Williams and Indian Games do snakes and Ladders Is it normal? Answer lies last night Louis Wuiton Men’s spring-Smar 2026 shows in Paris at Center Pompido, which broke the ground on an exciting new cooperation. French luxury fashion house participated with one of the largest, most elusive visionary in Indian architecture – Bijoy Jain of Studio MumbaiDesign the set for the show with Luis Wuiton Mains Creative Director Farell Williams.

In the piage of the museum, Runway took the form of a classic board (estimated 2,000 year old) snakes and Ladders game. Players need to go across the board from beginning to end to climb the ladder and avoid snakes, symbolizing the ideas of opportunity, responsibility and growth for Williams and Jain. Life -shaped sets were manufactured in wood, painted with a soil slip of the burnt umbrella pigment, and overladeed with five -handed serpents in turquoise, orange and green fluorescent shades. Thus the audience and model were converted into players in this grand game.

Photo: Louis Witon

Photo: Louis Witon

“Five snakes vary in size and movement, are prepared by hand and are painted based on a series of lime and geso paintings, using a raw pigment using a raw piggment on the surface of a cosmic map set in the centers of the center pompido in Paris using the raw pigment,” Jain said.

Photo: Louis Witon

Jain said about cooperation, “I am interested in searching for all possibilities.” “If you look at your best work, it’s a task you did not know what you can do. You have to come back to the point of being in full performance not to know the results. snakes and Ladders The idea was the origin. This is a courtesy of how someone walks in space and how to make something. For me, this is a cosmic diagram. It is like a mandla, but a game is set in this idea where everyone has to climb. ,

Williams, who has now gone to India for some time (earlier this year), said about his partnership with the architect: “I have praised Bijoy and his work, and I was honored when he agreed to cooperate on the set design for the show in Paris. snakes and Ladders Was born, and the game felt like a perfect metaphor for life: climbing, falling, lessons. “He said:” I imagined the set as a living (sports) board – more than a platform, some symbolic and living. This cooperation was a meeting of the mind – human, intentional and full of soul. ,