British set designer Es Devlin has created a twisting pathway around the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Niterói for the Louis Vuitton Cruise Collection catwalk show (+ slideshow).
Devlin collaborated with Louis Vuitton's creative director, French fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquiere, to create the set for the brand's recent show in Brazil.

The duo chose the contemporary art museum by legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Niterói, Rio, as the setting for the event, which showcased Louis Vuitton's annual ready-to-wear cruise collection.
"We conceived an environment in direct response to Niemeyer's ground breaking futurist architecture and to the extraordinary urban and natural geography that surrounds it," said Devlin. "The protagonists of the show treat the Niemeyer museum as an observatory to the future," she added.

Models walked along pathways that meandered along the museum's twisting access ramp, through permanent concrete benches and temporary seating in its forecourt, and then around the bottom of the circular building.

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The floor of the catwalk along the museum's ramp was covered with a red textile, in reference to its pigmented concrete, while pale blue was chosen for another section that passed over a pool of water at the museum's base.

"The pathways they trace echo its sinuous linear forms and guide our eyes towards the...