American Jon Shirley’s stunning 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Touring Berlinetta has won the coveted Louis Vuitton Classic Concours Award, selected from Best of Show winners at the world’s most prestigious automobile concours d’elegance.

In 1925 Louis Vuitton created a special trunk in its iconic monogram canvas to house a portable set of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica for the traveling scholar.

A later owner adapted the rare item to a more practical purpose, turning it into the world’s most stylish portable humidor.

The trunk was refitted to house 500 cigars in removable boxes lined with seasoned Spanish cedar along with a removable humidor in burled American walnut.

Measuring 36 inches in length (overall), this exquisite humidor is priced at $27,800 and available at Pullman Gallery’s, Kingstreet store.

The Louis Vuitton Trophy looks set to leave its controversial birth behind as it charts a course through a succession of four more regattas that bring the series into its own, on the eve of the Trophy’s second stage in Auckland that runs March 7-21.

At an astonishing price of $10,000 per pair, Louis Vuitton is offering what are perhaps the world’s most expensive pair of men’s dress shoes for S/S 2010.

The wingtip is called the Manhattan Richelieu and is handmade using Blake construction (to make the leather as supple as possible).

This pair of Louis Vuitton men’s shoes has a hand-painted leather sole and a ruthenium-finish LV cube embedded in the leather heel.

Louis Vuitton continues to expand their online store and have announced the introduction of the Louis Vuitton Mon Monogram service.

The service will allow you to customize your Louis Vuitton bag, ending up with over 200 million possible combinations on your bag of choice.

The selection of bags include the iconic Speedy, historic Keepall travel bag, or the Pegase 55 wheeled cabin case.

Once you choose your item you can pick up to three initials and vertical or diagonal stripes. There are 17 color options to choose from.

The latest collaboration from Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami for Spring Summer 2010 is the Cosmic Blossom Collection.

On a bright, block colour background, Louis Vuitton’s iconic Monogram flowers jostle playfully with smiling flower faces, a recurrent theme in Murakami’s art, which famously fuses manga graphics with traditional Japanese pictorial motifs.

Serigraphed onto the fabric, it will come in rose, bleu and violet and will be released on April 15, 2010.