Marc Jacobs Steamrolls Into Paris Fashion Week for Louis Vuitton

Designer Marc Jacobs rolled in his models aboard a Louis Vuitton train in a showstopping runway show today at Paris Fashion Week, in a romantic collection of womenswear for Fall/Winter 2012/13 that was streamed live on the Louis Vuitton Facebook page today with additional play on Twitter via the #LVlive hashtag.

Inspired by brand's roots creating luggage to elevate the art of travel, the collection celebrated the golden age of rail travel and "the romance of another time, the silhouette of another time" as Jacobs told The Telegraph, above.

Jacobs and Vuitton are also the focus of an exhibition that opens to the public on March 9th at Les Arts Décoratifs as part of a bigger celebration in France (and on digital) of the brand this week. More details below.

"Louis Vuitton - Marc Jacobs", an exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, runs from March 9th to September 16th, 2012. According to Vuitton, "This exhibition tells the stories of two men, Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs (artistic director of LV), and will highlight their contributions to the fashion world. How did they succeed in taking the pulse of their respective periods to innovate and take an entire industry forward? How did these two personalities, each with their own language, appropriate cultural phenomena and codes to write the history of contemporary fashion?" More in the trailer and behind-the-scenes clip below.