Marc Jacobs presents its “Dot” fragrance advertisement starring Australian beauty Codie Young. Captured by Juergen Teller, Codie shows off the flashy bottle made after the shape and color of a ladybug.

Louis Vuitton has collaborated with Yayoi Kusama on a series of products including leather goods, ready-to-wear, accessories, shoes, watches and jewelry.

Marc Jacobs worked with the Japanese artist on the range, which hits Louis Vuitton boutiques early July. Special window installations are also scheduled.

The artist is best known for her interest in polka dots, which she has famously applied to tree trunks, entire rooms and even people.

Much has been speculated ever since Dior’s creative head John Galliano fell from grace due to an anti-Semitism scandal five months ago.

Everyone from Azzedine Alaia to Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci has been named as a potential replacement in the process.

But when respected trade publication Women’s Wear Daily adds water to the rumor mill, it is usually an entirely diffrent story in terms of credibility.

Monday’s paper reads that according to an anonymous source, Marc Jacobs is entering negotiations with the house this week.

If you’re following fashion, you probably know that polka dots are huge right now, but US designer Marc Jacobs is taking the trend to a whole new level, with the circles not only popping up on his clothes but also on his model’s skin.

Looking like chicken pox, the dots are giving Helena Bonham Carter a rather sick look, an unusual image for fashion, but quite typical of photographer Juergen Teller who is responsible for Jacobs’s campaigns.

The designer previously released two other images of this upcoming fall/winter campaign, showing the actress in quirky positions and proving once more that Jacobs is not relying on conventional aesthetics to sell his clothes.

Nyasha Matonhodze, a Zimbabwean-born, British-raised 16-year-old model, has been chosen as one of the new faces of Louis Vuitton.

Nyasha Matonhodze entered the modelling world just two years ago after winning the UK Elite Model Look competition in 2009.

Joining her in the shots are Zuzanna Bijoch, 17, Daphne Groeneveld, 16, Gertrud Hegelund, 20, Anaïs Pouliot, 19, and Fei Fei Sun, 21.

Marc Jacobs spends a lot of time on the road, so what better theme for his fall-winter collection for Louis Vuitton than the goings-on inside a grand old hotel?

To the sound of elevators arriving, uniformed bellboys opened wrought-iron doors for models stepping out in tongue-and-cheek outfits inspired by, among other things, porn films from the 1940s.

“I spend a good part of my life in hotels and I like watching their secret lives, especially the ballet between call girls, mistresses and wives,” said Jacobs, 47, on the final day of Paris fashion week.