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Louis Vuitton Is Walking On The Moon

According to a source at WWD, legendary astronaut, and second person to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin will appear in Louis Vuitton’s next Core Values ad. Aldrin will appear alongside fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and Sally Ride. They are due to be photographed this week by Annie Leibovitz in a US desert. The Core Values [...]

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Marc Jacobs’ Right-Hand Woman Unwinds in Style Post Fashion Week

Farrow & Ball wallpaper and a chair in Elanbach fabric feature in Jane Whitfield’s French country home. After Paris Fashion Week, everyone involved needs a much deserved rest. While Marc and Lorenzo are living it up on vaction in Brazil, Jane Whitfield, Jacobs’ right-hand woman at Vuitton, relaxes in her quaintly chic country home near Versailles. As [...]

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Artist Destroys $12,000 of Louis Vuitton Bags for Sculpture

New York, NY, March 19, 2009 — As part of his latest exhibit entitle “I Am Not Chinese”, R. Lloyd Ming has incorporated twelve Monogram Alma bags from Louis Vuitton in a unique way — they have all been cut in half for a sculpture he calls “Crucifix”. The bags were purchased at a Manhattan [...]

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First Look: Louis Vuitton SS09 Advertising

New Zealand born illustrator James Dignan has been commissioned to create these advertisements for a Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2009 campaign. Hopefully these are just proofs and not the final representations because the products look awfully dull and are not representational of their actual colours. Perhaps this was an artistic consideration but I really don’t [...]

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Africa’s Next Top Model To Be Face of Louis Vuitton

Okay, so we don’t know who it is yet! Tyra has announced she will be starting a new version of her Top Model franchise in Africa. Auditions will take place later this month in Johannesburg, with the show airing later this year. One lucky African girl will take the top prize which includes a contract to [...]

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Daniel Lalonde Takes 200 Flights Per Year for Louis Vuitton

I find it facinating to learn how other people travel and I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps because travel is innately a luxury — or at least it was before massive airline restrictions and cutbacks. But it does say a lot about a person: how they travel, how they pack, what they pack, and the [...]

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