Nicolas Ghesquière and Pat McGrath Teamed up on Louis Vuitton’s First Beauty Collab

Louis Vuitton pulled from its own ranks for its first beauty collaboration.

The French maison’s makeup line, known as La Beauté Louis Vuitton, tapped Nicolas Ghesquière (LV’s artistic director) and Pat McGrath (the house’s creative director for cosmetics) for its new limited-edition offering. The launch includes two capsule collections that use two of the house’s famed monograms, Monogram Dune and Monogram Infrarouge, as their muse, as well as taking inspiration from the emblem’s 130^th anniversary.

First up is Monogram Dune, which shows off LV’s iconic insignia in a warm beige. That desert-inspired colour palette extends to all the products in the line-up. Kicking things off is a new shade of La Beauté Louis Vuitton’s LV Rouge lipstick (which we got a chance to review last year), done up in a satin rosy-beige hue. Then comes the LV Ombres eyeshadow palette, complete with a bright white, a rose-gold, a slightly metallic grey, and a soft-pink shadow. Rounding out the new offerings is an LV Baume that is meant to add a holographic shimmer to the lips, either over an existing product or shining on its own.

As for its darker-hued sibling, Monogram Infrarouge also has a new eyeshadow palette, lipstick, and lip balm to its name, upping the drama with a slew of bold hues. That begins with the shades found in this collection’s LV Ombres palette, where deep burgundy and dazzling blue-grey metallic shadows are the heavy hitters. You can pair them with the LV Rouge lipstick in a dark berry and a kaleidoscopic burst of colour within the LV Baume in Galactic Veil. All these pieces, of course, are decked out in the red-and-black Monogram Infrarouge pattern. You’ll also find both monograms on three limited-edition makeup canvases, which include lipstick pouches, Mini Vanities, and more.

“Nicolas and I have been building looks together backstage at Louis Vuitton for so many years now; there is a shorthand between us: a trust and a creative cohesion,” McGrath said in a press statement. “What we have created with this collection for La Beauté is the natural next step of that conversation. The products did not begin with a brief—they began with a feeling, the same feeling we always create together backstage before a show. That is what makes it so extraordinary. It is not a collaboration in the traditional sense. It is an evolution of our partnership.”

As for the cost, you can expect higher price tags than the ones that sent the internet into a frenzy when La Beauté Louis Vuitton launched in 2025. The LV Baumes and Rouges are set at US$195 a piece, while LV Ombres sits at US$340 (compared to US$160 and US$250, respectively, for the permanent collection). The limited-edition collection is up for grabs now on Louis Vuitton’s website.

This article was originally published on Robb Report USA.

Photos: Louis Vuitton