Louis Vuitton Robbed!

So much drama happening in the fashion world lately. Louis Vuitton is the latest fashion house to be subject to burglary, giving new meaning to the phrase, A Crime of Fashion.

More than $400,000 worth of Louis Vuitton merchandise was stolen from the LV store at the Charles de Gaulle airport last week. Quick, call the Fashion Police!

On Friday, a gang of masked thieves overwhelmed a security guard and four employees and broke into the airport location store and walked away with two cars full of LV goods. Oh also, they held the LV employees hostage, while they took their sweet time loading up 10 pallets full of the expensive goods. No details are known but the Parisian police are looking into the theft.

This isn’t the first high-profile fashion theft lately. Marc Jacobs entire 46 look spring/summer 2012 collection was burgled from a train in Paris. The brand says that all pieces from the collection were stolen when the train stopped in Paris during a transfer.

The samples were making their way to London for a European press day, but the brand sent out an email canceling the press day that was supposed to occur yesterday.

“Dear all,” the email read, “The Marc Jacobs PR team is sorry to inform you that our press day tomorrow in the Marc Jacobs store is cancelled, due to the theft of the spring/summer 2012 collections during its transfer from Paris.”

It is suspected that the collection was stolen by someone who intends to recreate the designs in an attempt to counterfeit the Marc Jacobs brand and sell them on the black market.

Does someone really not like Marc Jacobs? Marc Jacobs the man is the head designer for Marc Jacobs and also the creative director of Louis Vuitton, could someone be personally attacking his fashion regime?! Or does some petty thief just want to dress really, really good?

Other designers who’ve been robbed over the years include Karl Lagerfeld who over the summer had his Fall/Winter 2011 Chanel campaign stolen. “Everybody talked about this campaign and wants to see it,” said Lagerfeld.

After images of the collection showed up online he knew the clothes were stolen because he hadn’t shown the collection himself.

“Apparently there’s already a few images on the net. They were stolen, because we have shown nothing.”