Well, two major fashion labels, at least, are trying it out for three months.

Comme des Garcons and Louis Vuitton will open a joint store in Tokyo in September. Start saving your vacation time and cash now! But if it’ll be next to impossible for you to check out the store, just head over to H&M in November – Commes des Garcons will launch a line there. Maybe CDG can persuade LV to create a line for H&M, too…hey, a girl can dream.

Marilyn Monroe crooned it best, “diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” Of course we agree, well, that is until Louis Vuitton took it up a sparkling notch with its new logo-monogrammed diamonds. If your 4-carat or 5-carat diamond solitaire seems to be lacking something, perhaps it is the LV logo inscribed into your diamond, or the flowers etched on its side ending in a neat little bow, literally. For a mere $2.8 million dollars you too can have a three-strand necklace carved with the company’s monogram motif, or maybe the 6.25-carat ring is more your style with the aforementioned logo LV inscribed in the diamond, small flowers etched beautifully on its side, tied neatly in a little bow at the ring base, which took a year as reported in Women’s Wear on July 2, however there was no report on the price of this confection. The company is confident that this new monogrammed direction is the way to go that a solitaire engagement collection is on the November horizon. Frankly, if you already have a sizeable diamond, logo monogram or not, go with it and be happy.

Louis Vuitton started the pop up concept this year with the pop up Vuitton stores within Japanese artist Murakami’s art installations, with the stores featuring bags by the artist. Well it has caught on and now Colette will have a pop up mini store in New York City this summer on Fifth Avenue at 54th Street. The store will be set up for one month from September 6 through October 5. Colette, as you know (and again a fashion shame on you if you do not) is the hip, chic Parisian behemoth at 213 rue Saint-Honoré which carries all of the cutting edge labels and luxury designers that any fashionista, tourista and Lou Doillon wanna be could not live without. Much to the chagrin of Parisians, Colette will temporarily close its store for massive renovations starting July 7th, with an anticipated reopening by the end of August. Don’t be to upset though if you are in Paris and want to shop there, they will have a Suprette parked out front so you can still get your shop on.

For four years now, Louis Vuitton has been trying to convince a judge that Dooney & Bourke's multicolored monogram handbags were too similar to their own monogrammed purses and customers would get confused (we’re talking about the white/colored monogrammed purses for LV and D&B, for clarification). On Friday May 30, the judge determined consumers probably won't confuse one for the other and ruled in Dooney & Bourke's favor; LV used a larger font size and a combination of letters and shapes, D&B just uses an unadorned DB.

So, it took four years to figure that out? Vuitton plans to appeal the decision. Of course they do.

Suing someone who benefits a charity? Really?

Louis Vuitton is suing student artist Nadia Plesner over her Simply Living campaign, which benefits Divest for Darfur. The campaign features an illustration of a Darfur victim holding an accessory-sized dog and a white bag that looks like an LV bag – but it’s not. Instead of Ls intersecting with the Vs, S’s intersect with Ls. The point of this illustration is to prove that an image that evokes young “glamour” and materialism will get more attention than Darfur victims themselves. She was right, and that image is on T-shirts and posters, raising money for Divest for Darfur.

BUT even though the design on the purse in the illustration, which isn’t an exact copy of the Mukrami pattern, Louis Vuitton is still suing because they claim it infringes property rights. We get it – it’s not the best publicity for Louis Vuitton if what’s meant to be a bag of theirs is hanging on the arm of a Darfur victim. But come on, suing a charity?

If Papa, AKA Louis Vuitton, wants a Rolling Stone, he’ll get one – Keith Richards is the latest unlikely star of the company’s advertising campaign. The Richards campaign shows the aged-rocker in an untidy hotel room looking like a rock star with messy hair and smudged makeup. Does Richards even carry Louis Vuitton luggage? I guess regardless, he’ll make the bags look more edgy and rock ‘n roll.

The campaign will be shot by iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz. Previous campaigns involved Mikhail Gorbachev, Catherine Deneuve and tennis deities Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf.