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Lara Stone Replaces Madonna as the Face of Louis Vuitton

Filed under: Apparel

Louis Vuitton is bidding adieu to aging pop chameleon Madonna and replacing her with model-of-the-moment Lara Stone, nearly 30 years her junior, in its upcoming ad campaigns. The Dutch stunner, who appears on the cover of the new British Vogue and has starred in numerous other high-profile ad campaigns, will bring a breath of fresh air to the famed French brand. Stone poses on a bed of moss and ferns surrounded by doves in the new ads, photographed by Steven Meisel, which will debut in Februrary fashion mags. "Because the collection loosely took its cues from the idea of the New Age traveler, we decided to create a green, outdoorsy set that would evoke a spirit of peace and love," Vuitton designer Marc Jacobs tells Vogue UK. "To model the clothes, we wanted a modern, iconic, sexy beauty... It had to be Lara Stone."

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The Custom Chanel Motorcycle

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

Earlier this year we wrote about the ultra-fashionable Chanel concept car. Now there's another Chanel vehicle on the road for real. A custom motorbike (above) was commissioned by the French fashion house for a photo shoot staged at Chanel's Rue Royale boutique in Paris by the label's kingpin Karl Lagerfeld and starring super-sexy model Lara Stone - check out her cover story in the August issue of W magazine. Based on the bike used by legendary actor Marlon Brando in The Wild One, the motorcycle was custom made in Toulouse, France. Sadly, there are no plans to put the bike into production.

[via LuxuryLaunches]

Tags: Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, KarlLagerfeld, Lara Stone, LaraStone, motorcycle, Paris