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Rapper Jim Jones pleads guilty to NYC assault

Rapper Jim Jones admitted Monday to punching a friend of Ne-Yo's in the face in a Louis Vuitton store during a scuffle that erupted as the R&B crooner was browsing.

Unit of Louis Vuitton wins lawsuit

Louis Vuitton Malletier SA, a unit of French luxury goods maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, said Monday that a federal jury in California awarded it $32.4 million in damages in a copyright infringement lawsuit against businesses that hosted Web sites selling counterfeit consumer products.

Eyepopping prints and sexy sailor looks in Paris

Bold prints, harem pants and beefy sailor looks ruled the catwalks Thursday on day one of Paris' menswear displays, with strong spring-summer 2010 collections by Belgium's critical darling Dries Van Noten, French luxury label Louis Vuitton and the country's one-time enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier.

Good to go: Travel gifts for tight budgets

Hold the Louis Vuitton luggage set and the Christian Louboutin Travel Slippers. Unless you’re the sort who regularly shops Neiman Marcus’ Christmas Book — $160,000 2009 BMW 7 Series, anyone? — this is probably not the year to go hog wild on the holiday shopping.

D.C. Official Accused in $20M Scheme

The courthouse files look like the Christmas list of a high-society fashion maven with a purse fetish: mink coats, jewelry, Faberge eggs, a Mercedes Benz and more than 100 handbags and wallets with designer names like Chanel, Hermes and Louis Vuitton.

Louis Vuitton Wins Spears Video Lawsuit

Luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton has won a lawsuit that alleged a Britney Spears music video violated counterfeiting laws by showcasing a pink Vuitton-upholstered dashboard.

Man Returns Purse With $1M in Jewelry

John Suhrhoff found a Louis Vuitton bag on a Sausalito park bench.

Sober Vuitton Caps Global Fashion Marathon

The brightest thing Louis Vuitton customers will be wearing next winter is their handbag.

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First lady gets more love from fashion world
Source: msnbc.com

The Council of Fashion Designers of America will give Michelle Obama a special tribute in June. In addition, three designers she has been known to wear - Narciso Rodriguez, Jason Wu and Thakoon Panichgul - received CFDA award nominations.

Men's Fashion: Kanye West's Vuitton Kicks
Source: The New York Times

Marc Jacobs and the Louis Vuitton men's studio director Paul Helbers have some design competition this season. Kanye West, who was sitting front row at the Vuitton show, has designed a line of five LV sneakers.

Tattooed pigs banned from modern art exhibition
Source: Telegraph

Pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton logos have been banned from a modern art exhibition.

MediaPost Publications - Global Brands Adapt To Meet Changing Economic Climate - 09/23/2008
Source: MediaPost | Online Media Daily

Highlights from Advertising Week's Best Global Brands Summit. Features Louis Vuitton's intiatives to measure the value of marketing through metrics and a call to action. Describes an interesting 2-phase campaign. For luxury marketers, it sounds like direct marketing is square one.

Tiffany loses legal fight against eBay over counterfeit goods
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Auction website eBay has won a four-year legal battle with jeweller Tiffany & Co over claims by the jeweller that eBay was a 'rats nest' of fakes (first reported in 'In the News' on 12 December 2007).

A scathing review of Men's Fashion
Source: The New York Times

So there is a meaninglessness about the collections, which ended on Sunday, and more than the usual serving.

Britain's buggies march into battle against eBay
Source: The Times

Auction website eBay is facing further challenges from brand-owners after popular buggy manufacturuers, Maclaren and Bugaboo, announced that they wish to put restrict new pushchairs being sold via eBay shops.

Ebay ordered to pay $63M in LVMH case
Source: Bloomberg.com

EBay Inc. was ordered by a French court to pay LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA almost 40 million euros ($63 million) over claims the Internet auctioneer didn't do enough to stop the sale of counterfeit goods.

Court orders eBay to pay $61M in Louis Vuitton knockoff case
Source: USA Today

A French court ordered eBay to pay more than $61 million to a high-end fashion company Monday because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site.

eBay hit with £30m fine for sales of fake luxuries
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Auction website eBay has been ordered by a court in France to pay €40 million (£31.5 million) to the designer goods group that owns Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Givenchy, Kenzo and Guerlain for allowing fake bags, lipsticks and designer clothes to be sold on the site.

Help 11 Villages out of Poverty or Buy a Handbag? F**k it, I'll take the Handbag!!
Source: bagbunch.com

Hollywood stars would like you to believe they're not as superficial as the glamorous lifestyles they lead. Sure they might make millions, but they love to use that cash to feed starving children and help the homeless.

Jewelry Collection designed by Pharrell & Camille Miceli for Louis Vuitton
Source: bbcicecream.com

A few pictures of some of the Jewelry Collection designed by Pharrell & Camille Miceli for Louis Vuitton

Gorbachev Louis Vuitton Ad Hides Sinister Secret Message
Source: New York Magazine

Perhaps you've seen a memorable Louis Vuitton ad in the back of New York and other magazines: a pensive Mikhail Gorbachev being driven in a limo past the remains of the Berlin Wall, his only companion a trusty piece of LV luggage with some reading material sticking out.

Iran: Benetton = Zionist; also attack Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton
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What a bunch of maroons! Excerpts: "The MPs reportedly said that the clothes were a bad influence on female consumers and they also called Luciano Benetton, the main stakeholder in the company, "a Zionist".

Mo Dowd: Uxorious or Spurious?
Source: The New York Times

Rudy was going to have to think fast to keep up with that. He kept it simple, selling himself as the Gotham crime fighter, "because, after all, if you don't have a reasonable degree of safety, you can't exercise your other rights: the right of free speech ...

Vietnam Develops Taste for Luxury Goods
Source: The L.A. Times

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- In a country whose peasant army once marched on flip-flops cut from old tires, Gucci beach sandals priced at $365 can come as a shock.

Status for sale: Losing Luxury to Elite Consumerism
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When you have 18 year old kids driving around in 3 series BMWs, then all hope for the world is lost. Seriously, luxury means unobtainability as well as it does quality, which by that definition means only a small proportion of the population should have access to it.

Louis Vuitton and Gorbachev - The art of Travel
Source: the-preferred-guest.com

Ex USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev is the new face with Andre Agashi and Katrin Denev of L.Vuitton accessories.

Foxy Brown's alleged attacker goes free
Source: nme.com

The woman who allegedly attacked and robbed Foxy Brown last weekend has been released from jail after Brown failed to show up in court.

Scarlett Johansson for Louis Vuitton 07/08
Source: fashionising.com

Scarlett Johansson is looking sexy as ever in classic bombshell styling, for the latest Louis Vuitton campaign.

Louis Vuitton Congo GM Messenger Bag.
Source: carryingcontraption.com

Another really ugly monogram bag. And you thought the monogram canvas couldn't get any tackier.

Bottega Veneta Intrecciato Leather: Is It Really Logoless?
Source: carryingcontraption.com

Bottega Veneta is seen as the anti-logo brand, but the interwoven leather may serves as a pseudo-logo.B

Newsvine grows a little/ I have a Newsvine Press Pass for the America's Cup!! Amazing...

It's truly an amazing world, to prove my point I'll relate to you how I acquired a press pass for Newsvine as a reporter to the America's Cup in Valencia Spain.

Luggage Store Directory
Source: allsitessorted.com

I like this directory of luggage store websites. There are a lot of discounts that can be found.

Uma Thurman In Louis Vuitton Advertisements
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Uma Thurman is the new model of Louis Vuitton Ads. The pictures look super hot imagine having a photo-shoot like that for prom or something! I must admit, I am not a huge fan of LV bags. I just can't see what other girls find so appealing about them.

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