Prada gets ‘Iconoclast’ makeover

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Four of the world’s leading fashion editors are putting their signatures on the visual identity of Prada stores in New York, London, Milan, and Paris for the upcoming fashion season.

Following the order of the fashion week season, W Magazine’s Alex White will start the project with the New York Broadway store.

Love’s Katie Grand will then apply her vision to London’s Bond Street location.
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Yves Saint Laurent’s Art Auction

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The private collection amassed by the fashion designer and his partner Pierre Berge is considered one of the finest in the world.

Labeled the “sale of the century” by Christie’s, it will include over 700 lots with an estimated total value of €200 million to €300 million ($255 million to $380 million).

Berges and Saint Laurent met in 1958 and set themselves the goal of buying the best paintings and sculptures they could lay their hands on.

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Club Coke 2009 by Justice and So-Me

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Ed Banger Records SO ME and Justice hooked up to create this special bottle design in celebration of the new Club Coke. The bottle launched last week at the VIP Room in Paris.

The bottle comes in a red colorway and features the “Do The Dance By Justice And So_Me” slogan. At night the bottle will show its real feature - it glows in the dark.

The Club Coke 2009 marks the 5th anniversary of the Club Coke initiative. Look out for this new bottle in the best clubs around the globe very soon.

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David LaChapelle exhibition at the Monnaie de Paris

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La Monnaie de Paris will present from february, 5 to may, 31 the biggest and the thoroughest David LaChapelle’s retrospective ever organised in France.

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Almost 200 works will be exposed in the rooms of the 1st floor of French hotel, a pre-revolutionary building next to the Seine, featuring portraits of Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Koons, Elton John, Paris Hilton and of many others celebrities.

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Madonna for Louis Vuitton 2009 (Making Of)

Following his acclaimed Spring/Summer 2009 ready-to-wear show for Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs knew exactly who he wanted to embody the spirit of the season: Madonna should be the face of Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer fashion campaign.

The iconic pop star was photographed by her long-time creative collaborator Steven Meisel, the first time the influential fashion photographer has shot a campaign for Louis Vuitton.

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Christian Lacroix Lists Paris Apartment

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According to our friend the Real Estalker and The Wall Street Journal, Fashion designer Christian Lacroix is selling his Paris apartment for €2 million (about $2.6 million).

The roughly 2,150-square-foot apartment is in the chic Marais district.

The house, in a late-17th-century building near the historic Place des Vosges and the Picasso Museum, has an upper floor with public rooms designed around an interior patio of roughly 200 square feet, and a lower floor with four bedrooms.

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