If you're still kicking yourself for missing the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty retrospective, there are twelve ways to fill your fashion exhibit void this year. MTV FORA has put together a solid list of displays across the globe, and it features everything from the Azzedine Alaïa exhibit in Holland (one displayed creation pictured) to the highly-anticipated Louis Vuitton - Marc Jacobs tribute in Paris. See the roundup—which includes three events that you can catch right here in New York—after the jump.

Now that Jil Sander creative director Raf Simons is in talks to become the new head designer at Dior, we can officially lay to rest the possibility of Marc Jacobs taking over for the headless house. Although designing for an haute couture legend would have been a first for Jacobs, he's said before that he's "very happy" working at Louis Vuitton—so much so that he plans on making 2012 the French fashion house's best year ever, starting with three major projects. 

Like most things Sofia Coppola touches, her latest collaboration with French fashion house Louis Vuitton is effortlessly cool. Inspired by old school LV, the cruise 2012 accessories collection is filled with bags from the luxury label's past, but are spruced up with sportswear details, like bright hues and perforations. 

It's lawsuit season for The Hangover Part II, apparently. First, there was beef over whether its usage of Mike Tyson's facial tattoo constituted copyright infringement; next, a more bizarre case in which a man claimed that the film was based on his life. Yesterday, Louis Vuitton filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. (the film's distributor), alleging a mixture of trademark infringement and public undermining. It's all because of this scene, which you can see below:

● Balenciaga traded popularity for anonymity and booked newcomer Laura Kampman for their SS12 ad campaign. [Grazia]

While a bill to ban the purchasing and selling of counterfeit designer handbags is being proposed here in the States, folks in China are on to a new label-obsessed craze: fake shopping bags. As in, paper bags that carry the logo of a luxury designer, creating the illusion that inside of the bag is an actual designer item purchase, but really the bag is either empty, or contains Radio Shack batteries.

Well heeled bandits are wreaking havoc on the haute fashion hauses of Europe.  Just weeks after Marc Jacobs had his Spring/Summer collection stolen near its London Boutique, Louis Vuitton has become the victim of a heist.

Skorts, skants, jeggings; fashion types can't stop piecing together two words like they are a celebrity couple in the early aughts. And now, thanks to Louis Vuitton, we can add treggings to the lexicon. What are they exactly?

There were lots of surprises at today's Louis Vuitton runway show. First, instead of veering toward shock-value styling (who can forget last season's fetish-happy spectacle?), creative director Marc Jacobs went sugary-sweet. This collection was ultra girly, and filled with lace, pastel eyelets, floral motifs, and tiaras. The show featured a fantasy carnival theme, complete with a massive carousel with designated white horses for all 48 models. One of those models was none other than newlywed Kate Moss, who specifically requested to participate in the show.

Taking a hint from Mulberry's 480-page history book, both Louis Vuitton and Gucci are releasing new tomes on the stories behind their brands. According to WWD, Louis Vuitton: Architecture & Interiors chronicles "the foundations and structures of its worldwide stores, from opulent window displays to bag bars." Priced at $85, the hefty 304-pager is set to be released on October 1st.