Today we had breakfast at the St. Regis with the President and C.E.O. of Louis Vuitton North America and a few other choice bloggers including Get Kempt, Gala Darling, Daniel Saynt of Fashion Indie, Tina Craig of Bag Snob, Lesley of Fashiontribes and Wendy of Nitrolicious.

After receiving the invite last week we were more than intrigued to see what would come of the meeting.

Of course, as is the norm for big events, Murphy’s Law was in full effect. After jumping off a stalled six train (police investigation at 14th Street) and almost throwing down fisticuffs for a cab, we finally managed to share with someone going in the same direction (thanks Justin!).

Walking into the St. Regis, we headed for the library for what was a small intimate breakfast hosted by Daniel Lalonde. As much we tried to be suave, we were more than gleefully excited by the invite and meeting.

For a moment prior to arriving we had visions of some hoity-toity executives and how grateful we should be to be in their presence, *pause*, and the presence of Louis Vuitton. But it was NOTHING like that (thank goodness!) .

Louis Vuitton keeps it real!

(…or as real of they can for a corporation.)

Daniel and other Louis Vuitton staffer’s talked with us very matter of factly about how they could best help us. There was truly a good dialogue instead of them just talking down to us.

Louis Vuitton is grasping the concept of this Internet thingy and by reaching out to bloggers instead of shunning us, they’ve already earned haute points in our book.

There was a frank open discussion of how Louis Vuitton could work with bloggers in order to better inform you guys. They appeared to be extremely open about providing us with information about the history of the brand and product developments. Some things they had to keep a lid on, we guess for corporate reasons, such as the face of their next ad campaign. Hint: It’s a couple. Our money’s on Brad and Angelina…or maybe The Donald and Melania…or maybe the Beckhams.

Oh, and full disclosure, the only kickbacks we received were croissants, juice and coffee. Not money and certainly not one of those haute to def Damier graphite bags.

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