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Actress Angelina Jolie has been revealed as the new face of the Louis Vuitton fashion brand as her new promo ad is released today. While it is not really a big surprise that Jolie has been chosen as the new face of LV (rumors have been going around for a while now that she got the gig), I find it very surprising that in her first promo image for the company she is wearing her own clothes, posing with her own LV bag AND is wearing no make-up at all! Check out the photo below.

Unretouched photos from the photoshoot that Madonna did for the Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 09/10 ad campaign have made their way to the Internets … and they are quite a sight to see. In the photos, Maddy is wearing make-up but her imperfections had yet to be Photoshopped away … behold:

You may recall that we first got to see the retouched photos from the campaign last Summer … those photos had an effect overlaid on the photos to give them a colorful look. These photos are purportedly what Madonna looked like before that retouching effect was added to the photos. After the jump, check out a couple more unretouched photos from this shoot …

Last night David and I were invited to the Louis Vuitton store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, CA to attend a GQ magazine party celebrating LA Men of Style. The store was shut down and converted into a party space for invited quests to mix, mingle, drink and do a bit of afterhours shopping. The whole place was all done up in bright colorful lights:

There were a few celebs in attendance last night, including party host Neil Patrick Harris … who I finally got to meet last night :) After the jump, check out my pic with NPH and find out who else was at the shindig last night …

Last week we got to see a few behind the scenes photos from the set of the new ad campaign for Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 09/10 featuring their latest spokesmodel Madonna … and today we get to see behind the scenes video. Here are a few screencaps from the 3+ minute vid:

I have to say that I really love watching candid video of Madonna. She has so much personality and it really shows thru in this cute video. To be 100% completely honest, this video is the most interesting thing of the entire new Louis Vuitton ad campaign. The actual photos themselves are just … kinda blah. This vid is really cute. After the jump, check it out in full …

Yesterday we got to see the full set of ad campaign photos for Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 09/10 featuring their latest spokesmodel Madonna and today we get to check out a couple of behind the scenes photos from the campaign photoshoot. Here are a couple pics of Maddy with head LV designer Marc Jacobs (with his man Lorezno Martone) on the set of the photoshoot earlier this year:

Marc Jacobs was so pleased with this spring’s Louis Vuitton campaign featuring Madonna that he was eager to do an encore. “But very quickly Marc said, ‘I want something completely different,’” related Antoine Arnault, Vuitton’s communication director. The new ingredients included a dash of Tamara de Lempicka and a soupçon of Man Ray for color-drenched images by Steven Meisel with a surreal edge, thanks to generous use of solarization, a technique of overexposure first perfected by Ray. “It gives something very graphic, more edgy” than the first Madonna campaign, also by Meisel, which depicted her as a French coquette in a Parisian bistro setting, Arnault said. The new spots, which break in a range of August titles, feature a variety of runway looks and leather goods, many in the house’s signature monogram. Asked about the impact of the first Madonna campaign, Arnault said, snapping his fingers for emphasis, “Everything she was wearing in the first campaign was sold within a few months. People came into the store saying, ‘I want the Madonna bag, the Madonna shoes.” Arnault declined to specify budgets for the fall ads, but said investments would be “flattish” versus last year. “We’re one of the rare brands to have not reduced investments,” he said. Also slated for the second half is a new campaign devoted to the Tambour watch.

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not too enraptured by this new LV campaign featuring Madge, mainly because I’m not really feeling the Photoshopping effect added to the photos. As you can see from these behind the scenes photos, she looked fine without all the color manipulation (well, as fine as a grown woman can look while wearing bunny ears on her head). Even still … these campaign photos will be seen in fashion magazines around the world for the rest of the year. After the jump, check out one more LV F/W 09/10 campaign photo featuring Madonna was that not included in the batch we saw yesterday …

Last Thursday we got our first look at the new Fall/Winter ad campaign for Louis Vuitton which features their newest celebrity spokesmodel Madonna. Today, we get to see the rest of the promo pics from the LV Fall/Winter 09/10 ad campaign … in all their Photoshopped glory:

As I mentioned last week (and is clearly evident in the photos), Maddy is rockin’ those fugly bunny ears that LV designer Marc Jacobs created for her to wear to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala back in May … an accessory I could really do without. This new LV campaign was photographed by Steven Meisel and seems to have a “candy-coated” feel. After the jump, check out a couple more photos from Madonna‘s new Louis Vuitton ad campaign …

Last January we saw the batch of Louis Vuitton ad campaign photos for Spring/Summer 09 that feature their new spokesmodel Madonna … and then in April we learned that she posed for a new set of photos for LV for their upcoming Fall/Winter ad campaign. Today, we get to see the first image from that upcoming campaign — behold:

As you can see, Madonna is wearing the fugly bunny ear accessories that LV designer Marc Jacobs made for her to wear to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala back in May … which may or may not be a part of Vuitton Fall/Winter line. I’m not sure if I love this photo or not … it’s deffo colorful, heavily Photoshopped and not as intense as her last batch of LV photos. What do y’all think … do we like?

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Here are a couple new images of Madonna modeling some of the new fashions and accessories for the Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer ’09 collection:

As you may recall, we got our first look at the first images of the Madonna/Louis Vuitton campaign earlier this month so these new photos have yet to be widely seen. The setting and motif is the same … which I’m not sure it necessarily a good thing. Overall, tho, I really like this sultry campaign. After the jump, check out a couple more photos from this LV campaign …

Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs is appearing completely nekkid in new promo photos to celebrate the release of the new Stephen Sprouse book and exhibition that takes a look back at the late designer’s hugely successful collaboration with Louis Vuitton eight years ago. Here is one of the new Marc Jacobs promo pics (with only a Sprouse embellished LV carryall bag to protect his manhood) and some info on the original Jacobs/Sprouse collabo:

October 2008. Marc Jacobs is in a photo studio in downtown New York, stripped down to a tiny pair of American Apparel underpants while his naked legs are silk-screened with the words LOUIS VUITTON in fuchsia paint. He’s trying to decide if a cigarette would make him feel less self-conscious, in spite of the fact that he’s wearing a nicotine patch — and in spite of his new fabulously healthy and trim physique, decorated with and celebrated by loads of tattoos, including one of Elizabeth Taylor’s visage on his back. The lettering is poppy and familiar. It’s the graffiti done by Stephen Sprouse as part of the duo’s collaboration for the French house eight years ago. This time the graffiti is blindingly bright: neon pink. Stephen Sprouse died in 2004 at the too-young age of 50. “It’s an homage,” Jacobs says of the new collection, which features clothing, bags, and other accessories. It’s a limited release, timed to coincide with the opening of a Sprouse retrospective at Deitch Projects this month in New York and the publication of Rizzoli’s The Stephen Sprouse Book. “Stephen was one of the first people to deliberately eliminate the boundaries between fashion, art, music, and design,” says gallerist Jeffrey Deitch. It was Deitch who approached Jacobs and Vuitton with the idea for the collection. “And product,” he says, “is a great way to get a message across.” The story of Marc Jacobs, Stephen Sprouse, and Louis Vuitton began in the late ’90s, when Jacobs found himself thinking about Marcel Duchamp, the French artist who once sullied an image of the Mona Lisa with a funny little beard and mustache and called it L.H.O.O.Q., which, if you say the letters fast in French, roughly translates to “she has a hot ass.” “It’s about taking something that’s very iconic and revered and defacing it and creating something new, somewhat rebellious, and kind of punk,” Jacobs explains. “Cut from Marcel Duchamp to me going to see Charlotte Gainsbourg’s apartment,” he continues. “She had, by the side of her bed, a Louis Vuitton trunk that had been painted black by her father, and the Monogram was sort of peeking through.” Suddenly it was very clear what Jacobs needed to do. He needed to deface the revered and iconic Monogram canvas, and he needed to do it in a way that was modern enough to attract a new customer to the big old French brand. To do this, he reasoned, he needed Stephen Sprouse. Sprouse was one of the first high-fashion designers in the ’80s to make clothes that were painstakingly constructed, as well as hip and young and cool. A mantle, perhaps, inherited by Jacobs himself? “God, I can’t say that,” Jacobs says, still clearly in awe of his late friend. “I mean, you could say that, but I never could.” The parallels are difficult to ignore: “He had this desire to take what he saw in the streets and elevate it,” Jacobs says of Sprouse. “He was using all this stuff that was so costly, really beautiful materials, and he was doing it all so beautifully. There are so many people who try to affect a street style, but it doesn’t have the integrity. Stephen’s work was so stylistic, and it had street cred. You can’t calculate that. You have it or you don’t, and Stephen did.” It took some time for Jacobs to convince the Vuitton powers that be that scrawling all over their time-tested bags was a good idea, but Vuitton did, eventually, come around, and Sprouse came to Paris. The rest, of course, is It-bag history. “They thought the bags would be for the show,” Jacobs says, “or for editorial.” But as names on wait lists piled up, the bags were produced. And Jacobs was a genius. Vuitton did reach a new customer — $300 million worth of them, Jacobs has said — and has continued to do so through similar partnerships with artists like Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince. Each of these bags has been a triumph. They have been shown — and sold! — in fine-art museums. Jacobs doesn’t live in a vacuum: He knows that these luxurious, spirited bags will hit the market at a touchy economic time for conspicuous consumption. But he shakes it off. “Retail therapy,” he says, offering his leg up to the silk-screen artist. “It seems to work. It’s not the longest-lasting therapy in the world, but it does its job. I’m not pretending to cure the nation’s economy, but we do what we do, and if people enjoy it, even better.”

While I didn’t really love the Sprouse LV bags and accessories the first time around, I gotta admit that I really like the new neon-colored collection:

As a child of the 80′s, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the day-glo prettiness of neon colors. Unfortch, tho, I thought that the neon craze was already over. That being said, I’m pretty sure that Louis Vuitton will have *no problem* selling these expensive accessories no matter what the economic climate is. And Marc Jacobs is gonna do everything he can to help sales … including using his nekkid body. After the jump, check out another more NSFWish photo of Marc Jacobs nekkid — this time without the bag to cover his naughty bits …

In mid November we learned that Louis Vuitton fashion director Marc Jacobs tapped Madonna to be featured in the upcoming LV 2009 ad campaign (to the tune of about $10 million) and today we get our first look at the first images of that new campaign. Here are the first of two promo images of Maddy for Louis Vuitton that have been released:

When Marc Jacobs found himself in a meeting on a recent Monday morning to brainstorm about Louis Vuitton’s next fashion advertising campaign, inspiration struck. “I just blurted out, ‘I think we should do Madonna,’” said the designer, Vuitton’s creative director, mentioning he’d attended a concert by the pop icon the night before in Paris. “I was totally just blown away by it, and moved by her performance, by what she had to say, and her energy.” As the meeting went on, Jacobs tapped out a message to Madonna on his BlackBerry, and within about five minutes came the reply: “I’d love to.” The result is six atmospheric pictures of a smoldering Madonna by Steven Meisel that will break in a range of fashion magazines in February. “It’s a big change from what we were doing. It tells a story,” said Antoine Arnault, Vuitton’s director of communications. “This I think is an amazing coup, but more than that, there’s real logic behind it. It’s very linked to Marc’s fashion show.” Although Arnault declined to give figures, he said media budgets for the fashion campaign would be on par with a year ago. And he dismissed as “absurd” reports pegging Madonna’s fees at $10 million. “It’s very far away from that,” he assured. The campaign marks the end of Vuitton’s six-year collaboration with photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, with the parting characterized as amicable, and another reunion for long-time collaborators Madonna and Meisel. Jacobs last worked with Meisel in his Perry Ellis days. (Arnault noted it’s “very probable” Vuitton’s association with Meisel will continue.) The campaign takes the very Parisian theme of Jacobs’ hit spring Vuitton collection, with a smoky French bistro the setting, and the sepia-toned images evoking a Brassai atmosphere. “As cliché as they are, I love all these French references,” the designer said. (Although the restaurant, Figaro, is on North Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles). “I still feel it looks like beautiful, gorgeous Madonna,” Jacobs said about the images. “Excepting the references and excepting the clichés, this still feels very today. And it didn’t feel so much like a fashion shoot, it feels like portraits.”

The concept and photos are brilliant. When I first heard that Maddy would be appearing in the new Louis Vuitton ad campaign I thought, Why hasn’t this happened already? I’m not surprised that she would agree to appear in the ads so quickly but I am surprised that the six campaign photos were all shot in one day. After the jump, check out another photo from Madonna‘s Vuitton campaign spread and read more about the day of the shoot …