Lara Stone

A little introduction to the new face of Louis Vuitton... Madonna has passed the torch onto the blonde, fresh faced, Lara Stone in all her bed-haired glory

My updated rant to Santa

Contrary to what this title may have you assume, I won't share another letter to the bearded man as I fear in the whole tell a wish it wont come true scenario might bite me in the ass. Instead I'll summarise as more of a news sharing bulletin (have I given the impression that i believe in Santa now?)
One thing we can't deny in London, or really the entire Western world, is the hype and effort stores contribute to making our Christmas full of smiles and ultimately consumerism. What a better way to seduce my eyes this month than with a Christmas tree decorated in L's and V's?

Yes, it's another pop-up store. Louis Vuitton set up shop in Selfridges especially for Christmas, filled with goodies and pleasures. What's the star/limited edition offering good ol' Marc hooked up? (which if i ever meet him will definitely stumble out more like Mr Jacobs). It's all about the dogs at Louis Vuitton. Find rows of doggie bags, collars, leashes etc and promote your dog loving further with the special edition dog motif t-shirt. My rant to Santa is undoubtedly on a more selfish note relating to their non-dog products lest I feel to emasculate my largely sized dog.

* Summary- I guess I wasn't lying with my "rant" title - Check out the Louis Vuitton Christmas edition store in Selfridges

Lets do something together

I'm not sure whether it's down to the recession and brands are trying to boost spending by stirring new excitement, or it just so happened but I've found myself dumbfounded by the amount of collaborations that have sparked into action over the last 6 months. 

Christian Louboutin as I've mentioned has stepped out of his luxury footwear creations and developed an amazingly crafted champagne inspired (not to be worn) shoe with his collaboration with Champaign legends Piper Heidsieck. And now, even Barbie gets to be blessed with a pair of Louboutin's for her 50th birthday. Louboutin is now creating pink pumps for our plastic dolls that will be replicated form those worn down the recent Barbie runway.

Although, this has created a tad bit of controversy at the shoe designer said Barbie has "Cankles" tut tut...

Next up on the collaboration front is Kanye West simply because I had no idea this went on, but I'm not really the target audience to be fair. 

News has it that Kanye West created a line of "sneakers" - trainers over on this side of the world - for Louis Vuitton. 

And I must say, this mixture of premium materials, suede, gold rings and a nice Louis Vuitton stamp, I feel strangely drawn to them.... The mysticism of branding has taken hold!

Why Bunny Ears??

Although the Spring/Summer 2010 shows have begun, I still keep getting questions and confusing as to why Marc Jacobs decided to use bunny ears for the Louis Vuitton AW collection. So here I shall end this dilemma...

In this behind the scenes video of the Madonna shoot, he said:  "There's a girl who works for us, Lucy, she's on the design team, and Adrian, one of the boys, was tying a little bit of fabric around and it reminded me of bunny. We were thinking of all these different things like can-can dancers, and I saw this piece of fabric wrapped around Lucy's head and said, 'Bunny ears, that's what we need to finish this look.' So we made all these bunny ears and that's how it happened. I like the kind of Playboy, French coquette aspect to it."

This just goes to prove, inspiration can strike at any time.

Help me: these shoes are seducing me

Louis Vuitton has named these pumps 'Sensual Pumps'. Featuring their engraved logo on the sole and the intoxicating colours of this shot, I actually feel as if these shoes are trying to seduce me.
I MUSTN'T GIVE IN!