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IT’S A DATE: It’s never too early to begin planning for 2023’s destination cruise shows. Nicolas Ghesquière has already fixed a date for Louis Vuitton’s: May 24. Other details are still under wraps, including the geographic location and venue. Artistic director of girls’s collections at Vuitton since 2013, Ghesquière typically selects an architectural marvel as a transporting backdrop for Vuitton’s cruise displays. For the resort 2023 collection, he selected the Salk Institute in San Diego, a clifftop research facility that boasts a slim reflecting pool running between two equivalent rows of Brutalist buildings, framing breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean. Over time, Vuitton cruise shows have taken place on the groovy Bob Hope Estate by John Lautner in Palm Springs, California; Brazil’s otherworldly MAC...