Numero Does LV Fall

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Don't you hate it when you're paging through a new magazine, your eye lands on something amazing, and you read the credit and find out it's not available in stores for a month? Looks like magazines are taking their long-lead status to new, um, lengths. The latest June issue of Numero Japan features an editorial filled with spring looks mixed up with fall-winter 2012 pieces from Louis Vuitton. Our Tokyo correspondent reports: "As I am looking at a beautiful editorial set in an old French maison with fetish-inspired clothing in the just released Numero Tokyo June issue, I notice something?interesting. The SS ’11 Prada stole is recognizable to many, but I also spy with my little eye Louis Vuitton.. which should be fresh in all of our minds since it was just shown on the runway for the fall/winter 2012 season." [Tokyo Fashion Diaries]