Louis Vuitton hits a high note by featuring a 200-person choir at the Paris Fashion Week

Fashion and music are an amazing combination when it comes to display.

To strike the right chord is key to make an average show absolutely mind-boggling.

Louis Vuitton ended the Paris fashion week on Tuesday with one of its most sublime shows, a "clash of epochs" extravaganza at the Louvre museum.

The pin-stripe, which still clings on as the uniform of international finance, was taken and transferred onto leather trousers.

The show featured a 200-person choir in period costumes that went from the 15th century to the 1950s.

Designer Nicolas Ghesquiere hired Stanley Kubrick's multi-Oscar-winning costume ace Milena Canonero -- who dressed both "Barry Lyndon" and "A Clockwork Orange" -- to put together a five-storey living backdrop to the show, with music exhumed from forgotten 18th-century master Nicolas de Grigny.

"I wanted the ages to regard each other and our own," the highly-rated French creator said.

Ghesquiere said he was trying to "do everything you can do with clothes, to mix and match them."

He described his collection as a "lively and sparky stylistic clash" between the past and the present.

Starry front row

The pin-stripe, which still clings on as the uniform of international finance, was taken and transferred onto leather trousers, dresses, skirts and a waistcoat.

The designer said he was trying to "do everything you can do with clothes, to mix and match them" and find new possibilities without the mental style constraints of what should and should not work.

"This collection is the complete opposite of the 'total look'," Ghesquiere declared. "It's sartorial tuning," both in the slang sense of flirting and finding the right note, he said.

Ghesquire revealed new customised handles for the classic Vuitton Keepall bag.

In front of a typically starry front row that included Hollywood actresses Lea Seydoux, Florence Pugh and Alicia Vikander, he revealed new customised handles for the classic Vuitton Keepall bag as well as new "mini cabas".

Ghesquiere had music for the choir -- dressed in costumes that ranged from Versailles in its pomp to the court of the Ming dynasty -- put together by Bryce Dessner from the US indie rock band The National and French music video maker Woodkid.

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He said the piece, called "Three Hundred and Twenty", was also meant as a tribute to Nicolas de Grigny, on whose work it is based.

A contemporary of Bach, his genius was not recognised during his short lifetime, and he never got his music played in front of French royalty at the Louvre.