La Beauté Louis Vuitton announced its first beauty collaboration on 20 August 2026, pairing the house's artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière with its cosmetics creative director Pat McGrath. The project marks the 130th anniversary of the Monogram and takes the form of two limited-edition makeup capsules: Monogram Dune and Monogram Infrarouge.
Each capsule contains a four-pan eyeshadow palette, a satin lipstick and a lip balm. The collection went on sale on the Louis Vuitton website from 20 August. The original La Beauté Louis Vuitton line launched in 2025, and McGrath is the house's creative director for cosmetics.
The Monogram pattern was introduced in 1896. Marking its anniversary with makeup rather than a bag shows how far the house now treats beauty as part of its identity.
Dune: sand, gold and dusty pink
Monogram Dune is built on beige, gold and dusty pink shades, with a soft, warm nude lipstick. Robb Report describes it as a warm beige, desert-inspired palette, with a satin rosy-beige LV Rouge.
The lip balm, the LV Baume, comes in a holographic lip shimmer in this capsule. Its shades of sand, beige and gold sit close to tones familiar from the Gulf's own landscape and wardrobes.
Infrarouge: charcoal, plum and burgundy
Monogram Infrarouge is darker. Its palette runs through charcoal and plum tones, and its lipstick is a deeper, cooler burgundy. Robb Report calls the LV Rouge a dark berry and describes the eyeshadows as deep burgundy and blue-grey metallics.
Here the LV Baume is Galactic Veil, a multicolour shade. Where Dune reads as a soft, warm finish, Infrarouge is the stronger and darker of the two, with deeper colour on both the lid and the lip.
A four-pan palette holds four eyeshadows in a compact case, which suits a limited capsule: enough shades to build a look, small enough to carry. A satin lipstick has a finish between matte and glossy, soft rather than flat. Seen together, the two capsules read as a pair:
- Monogram Dune: beige, gold and dusty pink eyeshadows, a soft warm nude satin lipstick and a holographic LV Baume.
- Monogram Infrarouge: charcoal and plum tones with blue-grey metallics, a deep burgundy lipstick and the multicolour Galactic Veil LV Baume.
The prices
The limited-edition pieces are priced in US dollars above the permanent collection. According to Robb Report, the LV Baume and LV Rouge are $195 each and the LV Ombres palette is $340, against $160, $160 and $250 respectively in the permanent line.
That is a premium of $35 on the LV Baume and the LV Rouge, about 22 per cent, and $90 on the palette, about 36 per cent. The sources do not say how many of each capsule will be made, so the figure that buyers are paying for is the limited run itself and the Monogram design.
Three limited-edition makeup canvases carry both monograms: lipstick pouches, Mini Vanities and other pieces. Grazia Middle East's September rundown also lists the capsule, describing it as the house's first fashion-and-beauty collaboration, with an eyeshadow palette, a satin lipstick, a lip balm, a brush set and matching small leather goods.
Two creative directors, one partnership
McGrath told Robb Report that she and Ghesquière have been building looks together backstage at Louis Vuitton for many years. She said that the project is not a collaboration in the traditional sense but an evolution of their partnership.
That framing matters. The capsule is less a licence between two brands than the product of two people who already work in the same room, and it is presented that way.
What it means for the Gulf
Dune, a sand-and-gold palette, is the kind of capsule that suits light-toned glamour and the Gulf wardrobe, and Infrarouge gives it a darker counterpart. But none of the sources says whether the capsule is sold in the Middle East. Hypebae and Robb Report mention only the brand's own website. Readers in the region should check with Louis Vuitton Middle East before expecting local availability.
For those who prefer a lower price and no deadline, the permanent collection remains the alternative, with the LV Baume and LV Rouge at $160 and the LV Ombres palette at $250. Whether the limited capsules will also reach boutiques in the region, or ship there from the website, is the open question, and the house has not answered it in the material available at the time of writing.
For now, the news is the pairing: a fashion house, its artistic director and its cosmetics creative director, working on a product that bears the pattern the house has used for 130 years.
Sources: Hypebae, Robb Report Malaysia, Grazia Middle East