The Louis Vuitton auction, held last night at Sotheby’s on New Bond Street, saw seven special orders sold for a total of £495,000 in aid of the Red Cross.

Louis Vuitton offered six masters of savoir-faire the opportunity to create a unique special order that embodies their expertise in their respective professions.

The latest visual of Lady Dior Campaign with Marion Cotillard has been released on Twitter. It’s beautiful and it’s signed by Annie Leibovitz!

On Tuesday, Annie Leibovitz’s $24 million loan comes due, but she really can’t pay it.

Her lender, Art Capital, is planning to sell Leibovitz’s archive and describes it as fine art and intellectual property, as the right to reproduce and sell pictures.

One recent court document reveals that Leibovitz’s vintage Rolling Stone material alone was appraised “in excess of $50 million.”

Marion Cotillard, who was featured in the advertisement for the Lady Dior bag last fall is set to continue her role in Dior’s advertising campaign.

The next chapter in the Lady Dior advertising saga, sees the Oscar-winning actress continuing her adventures, this time in New York City as “Lady Red.”

Print ads, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, are slated to break in August fashion titles and be plastered around Paris during fashion week in October.

Louis Vuitton takes its travel theme “to infinity and beyond” in its latest “Core Values” campaign underlining its travel roots:

The campaign features astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and Sally Ride, marking the 40th anniversary of “One giant leap for mankind.”

Aldrin, who walked on the moon in 1969 was shot by Annie Leibovitz with his fellow astronauts posed with a battered pickup truck and a Louis Vuitton Icare travel bag while gazing up into the sky in the California desert.

The ads will hit magazines’ July issues in a couple of weeks.

A close friend of Louis Vuitton’s creative director Marc Jacobs, filmmaker Sophia Coppola is collaborating with the brand to design a one-off collection of handbags and shoes.

Little else is known about the collaboration at this stage. It is expected that the new collection will initially only be available in Japan like LV’s current collaboration with Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo, before being available at Louis Vuitton stores worldwide.

Sophia and her famous father Francis Ford Coppola, recently starred in Louis Vuitton’s “core values” ad campaign, which was photographed by Annie Leibovitz. The “Lost In Translation” Oscar winner’s is currently in Paris for the shows, and will no doubt be front row at Louis Vuitton on Sunday to support her best friend Marc Jacobs, and maybe even to get some ideas for her own line : )