Flying in Emma Stone, Léa Seydoux and Sienna Miller is guaranteed to bestow star power upon your outdoor fashion show on the French Riviera, but even they can’t save the day if the heavens decide to open as the models strut their stuff.

So Louis Vuitton left nothing to chance and hired a shaman to keep the rain away at their event this week in Saint-Paul de Vence, a small medieval town in the hills above Nice and Antibes, reports say.

The Brazilian weather guru had reportedly been hired to control the weather at the French firm’s previous shows in exotic locations around the world, but sceptical executives had recently decided to dispense with his costly magic.

But they quickly put him back on the payroll after a sudden downpour drenched an outdoor Dior show last month in Chantilly, near Paris, according to various reports from fashion news websites.

The unnamed shaman was flown in to make sure everything went smoothly weather-wise at the Vuitton event in Saint-Paul de Vence, where the firm privatised the Fondation Maeght, a modernist museum whose grounds include 250 works of art dotted along its winding paths.