• Gird your loins! The Comme des Garçons line launches at H&M this morning. See the mayhem that ensued while you were sleeping when the line launched in London. [British Vogue]
• Rumor has it Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott did not shoot the spring 2009 Louis Vuitton campaign after seven years shooting for the label. The ads reportedly star Madonna and were shot by Steven Meisel. [WWD]
• Thom Browne will stage his first-ever fashion show in Europe, in Florence in January. [British Vogue]
• Hillary Clinton attended the Glamour Women of the Year Awards wearing not a pantsuit, but a chocolate brown Isaac Mizrahi gown that, according to this paper, "sent style shock waves into the stratosphere." We think she looks nice, no? [NYDN]
• André Leon Talley was seen at a party wearing a coat with "The New American Dream" spelled out on the back in crystals. Are crystal words allowed at Vogue, or is that his evening look? [WWD]
