Louis Vuitton valiantly battled pounding rain on an Italian island paradise while presenting its cruise collection Wednesday night, the weather sending celebrity guests underneath umbrellas and dampening a hairdo or two.

With Pharrell Williams’s first collection, the Louis Vuitton show will be the highlight of the Paris menswear week, which will introduce Koché and Burc Ayol and lose seven names, including Saint Laurent and Margiela.