A single four-petal Monogram Flower becomes a clock face in Louis Vuitton’s Deep Time finale, compressing billions of years of geology into one graphic sign. Instead of hours, each petal reads as an era, its orientation and color gradient operating like a segmented dial that moves from primordial crust to mineral-rich modern strata.
Deep Time treats geological time as a layered archive, translating plate tectonics and stratigraphy into gem selection and petal architecture. Diamonds, opals and other silicates stand in for evolving mineralogy, while metalwork traces mimic fault lines and subduction zones. The flower’s radial symmetry becomes a visual model of entropy, with ordered petals framing stones that record volcanic pressure, metamorphism and crystallization.
By repeating and rotating the motif across necklaces, brooches and timepieces, the finale builds a taxonomy of eras: dense, opaque stones cluster in one petal quadrant, translucent and highly refractive stones in another, echoing shifts in Earth’s atmosphere and crustal chemistry. Each piece functions as a compact stratigraphic column worn on the body, turning a brand icon into a precise, legible diagram of deep geological change.
