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.

According WWD, Lady Gaga will perform at a New York Fashion Week launch party for the new Givenchy Play men’s fragrance at The Box on September 15th!

The event is being hosted by Out magazine. Lady Gaga is also rumored to perform at Marc Jacobs’ party the previous Monday evening.

Marc Jacobs takes you behind the scenes of the lattest Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2009-2010 Ad Campaign photoshoot featuring Madonna.

Jacobs went with an old Hollywood direction for the campaign, with a Man Ray influence.

MJ and Madonna reunited with photographer Steven Meisel, who shot the previous campaign (and the provocative Calvin Klein billboard).

A symbol of French elegance and savoirvivre, Louis Vuitton has maintained close links with the art world for more than 150 years.

As pioneers of the art of travel, Louis Vuitton and his successors have forged a strong relationship between traditional know-how and contemporary design.

The arrival of Marc Jacobs as artistic director in 1997 reinforced Louis Vuitton’s ties with artists, notably through exemplary collaborations with Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince.

In Hong Kong, the Louis Vuitton and Art exhibition brings this exciting story to life illustrating the creative process through installations combining works of art and archive documents.

Louis Vuitton designer Marc Jacobs and boyfriend Lorenzo Martone are said to have signed a contract to buy a $13 million townhouse designed by Robert A.M. Stern in New York’s West Village, the Real Estalker reports.

The 4,500-sq.-ft. townhouse, located on Bethune St., has private elevator serving all floors, a rear terrace, a roof terrace and all the most modern electronic conveniences.

The entire complex is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council and the developers are aiming at achieving LEED Silver Certification which will make it one of the more energy friendly and politically correct condo complexes in New York City.

Marc Jacobs created a collection full of accessories for the Louis Vuitton fall 2009:

Lovely handbags, exciting shoes, bejeweled satin leggings, necklaces modeled after paper garlands, stunned gloves mixed with ladylike pearls of all sizes and even bunny ears for playful ladies.

And of course the gilded monogram, the protagonist of every collection.