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Louis Vuitton sure knows how to get the right person to be its face. Earlier, luxury-icons and celebrities like Bono, Sean Connery, Keith Richards and Catherine Deneuve have been the Louis Vuitton’s faces, and this time around, it is Angelina Jolie who would be the face of their latest campaign titled ‘Core Values’. The campaign was shot by Annie Leibovitz and the first ad from the campaign features Angelina Jolie sitting on a wooden boat somewhere in Cambodia. Of course, she has a Louis Vuitton bag over her shoulders and looks as fashionable as ever with her dark hair. In fact, until recently she was spotted with blonde hair, and Angelina doesn’t look bad in dark hair either. LV sure knows how to rope in the best celebrities for their ad campaigns. While Angie sure is a global symbol of humanitarian efforts, adoptions, fight against racism and a bit of glamour thrown in, Louis Vuitton might have chosen her as she is also the U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for many causes. He...

The Denver Art Museum has the unique honor of hosting the internationally acclaimed exhibition Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective. This exhibition will not travel anywhere else. The exclusive exhibition will feature 200 haute couture outfits showcasing the designer’s 40 years of creativity. The development of Saint Laurent’s style will also be highlighted through several photographs, drawings and films. The exhibition will run at the museum from 25th March to 8th July 2012. The visitors will get to see the legendary designers first days at Dior in 1958. There will be well defined sections in the exhibition. In fact it will be organized thematically. It will cover the designer’s entire career including his final runway collection of 2002. The exhibition will highlight how Saint Laurent bent and even broke the rules of what women were expected to wear. A lot of the wardrobe of today’s modern woman has roots in Saint Laurent’s revolutionary designs. There will be the Y...