eBay fined €1.7m in ongoing battle with LVMH
Louis Vuitton- LVMH- & eBay sure are playing a game of back and forth in French Courts over the past few years.  eBay been taking a beating.  It’s now been sanctioned to the amount of €1.7m for allowing the sale of over 1000 unauthorized (but authentic) LVMH purfumes & cosmetics on the site.  They’re saying that eBay breached an injunction set in place in June of 2008,  barring eBay from allowing the posting of perfumes or cosmetics in LVMH brands (LV, Dior, Kenzo, Give

Louis Vuitton’s Secret Garden
Love the ambiance of the Louis Vuitton 2010 ready-to-wear collection debut party at Saks Fifth Avenue.  Don’t you love this iconic monogram in fresh flowers?

Gucci Gives Back
Love it when people and corporations do good with the resources they’ve got! It looks like Frida Giannini- creative director for Gucci and author/ illustrator Michael Roberts have collaborated together in a campaign to benefit UNICEF.  They’re putting together some original pieces designed by Giannini that will be exclusively sold in Gucci boutiques and on Gucci.com. The facinating angle is that Giannini h

First Ever 24hr 10% EVERYTHING Black Friday Sale
Hope you all had a great day.  This has been another Thanksgiving- and once again- we here at Fashionphile (and myself especially) are so thankful to all of you for your continued support and loyalty!  Honestly- we love what we do- and thank you SOOOO much!  We’ve never done a sale like this before- but we thought it would be a perfect way to say how thankful we are for all of you. I’m one of the suckers who LOVE Black Friday.  My family

Designer bags your bread & butter?
No really- like flour, yeast, oil… Yeah. New online mag “Flamboyant” has included various pictures of branded and otherwise odd baked goods in their “Daily Bread” section of their first issue. We’ve seen this kind of Appropriation before- in candy, cakes, guns, antlers and remember the LV electric chair and LV monogram live PIGS?