Louis Vuitton’s Springtime 2012 ad strategy is just as sugars lovely as the collection

Because I know we have so many Louis Vuitton lovers around here, I can't fight publishing these first looks at the Louis Vuitton Springtime 2012 ad strategy. If you followed our protection of the Vuitton driveway display a few several weeks ago, you probably could have thought how this strategy would look – light, special and ever so lovely. The company utilized Steven Meisel to take Daria Strokous and Kati Nescher in the globe's most magnificent ice treatment store, and the outcome fit the feelings of the clothes and components completely. Check out another chance after the leap.

Your WTF of the day is courtesy of Jimmy Choo

When I discovered the Jimmy Choo Whipstitched Fur Crossbody on Neiman Marcus as sale page (naturally) last night, my brain flooded with innumerable questions. Why had I never seen this bag before? Surely it had been around for some time if it a's now on the sale page? I trawl Neiman Marcus for things to write about  every day, how did I miss it? Did it go directly to the sale page, do not pass go, do not collect $200? Might this be the most heinously terrible crime against humanity that I a've ever seen from a major handbag brand, or is it hilarious to be bad?

And then there a's the strap! It looks like the kind of thick, fancy rope that you a'd find at an upholstery shop frequented by the Actual Housewives of New Jersey. No, actually, this is what it reminds me of (in case you don a't know where this is headed, skip to around three:30):

I am not even definite I do know where to start. The bag apparently comes with its own (attached!) bed of raccoon tails so that no matter where you place it, it  as definite to act as an expensive Swiffer and attract all the loose dust in a twelve-inch radius. Not to mention that while you  are jogging, that giant wad of fur is going to be dangling from your hip the whole time.

If the whipstitched reptile-and-leather bag had been on a traditional strap, it would have been a incredibly passable crossbody option, but with half a dozen tassles and yards of rope and pounds of fur, it as hard to keep in mind that there as even a bag there. I could imagine this bag looking the part in a Russian-themed Vogue news story, but beyond that, I hope that no designs to actual purchase or carryover it. Buy through Neiman Marcus for $1336 (was $1995).