As restocking effects are now over across most luxury product categories, Q3 sales trends at Louis Vuitton Sale, and the broader sector are more closely aligned with underlying consumer demand, a positive in the run-up to Christmas," Citi said in a note.LVMH's strong results come as German fashion house Hugo Boss , known for its sharply cut men's suits, raised its 2010 profit forecast and posted better-than-expected third-quarter figures.

Louis Vuitton Bags, did not give an outlook for the year. It simply reiterated its "confidence for 2010".LVMH, which owns fashion brands Celine and Louis Vuitton as well as Moet & Chandon, the world's biggest champagne maker, said sales in the three months to September 30th reached 5.1 billion.On a nine-month basis, revenue hit 14.2 billion euros against a forecast for 14.0 billion in the Reuters poll.LVMH said consumer demand for wines and spirits had returned, particularly for Hennessy cognac in Asia - one of its biggest businesses - which helped push up the unit's overall sales 17 per cent on a comparable basis in the third quarter.

Leather goods maker LV, which contributes more than half of LVMH's total operating profits, continued to enjoy double-digit growth and said it planned to launch a new line in the third quarter.Louis Vuitton last month raised the prices of some of its bags by up to 9 per cent and closed its Parisian shops an hour earlier to preserve stocks ahead of Christmas.Some analysts and fund managers said they saw the move as more as a marketing tool than a necessary measure as the total sales of Louis Vuitton Paris shops represented only a small fraction of the group's world sales.

Cutting apart looks from Louis Vuitton Watches, Fall 2010 collection could be considered a form of fashion madness but the students from Parsons The New School for Design did so with vigor yesterday as part of a competition dubbed Reconstruction 2.0.Six teams of four students each were dispatched to the Vuitton store in New York's Soho neighborhood to sift through discarded press samples such as leather bags, luxe dresses, and sport coats. With scissors and sketch books in hand, they set up work stations within the boutique to come up with concepts for a travel blanket. We cut each piece into individual parts and sewed them back together," one of the winning designers, Janelle Abbott, told StyleList. It was so much fun. We just ripped it in two.

Abott's crew called themselves Time Travel and used a dark, dyed fabric with leather embellishments and bits of bright material peaking out to convey their design. It was about travel through time, and the layers Boetie GM, your life,said Abbott.Another team emblazoned their blanket with a gold anchor, while a third wove their Vuitton stash together to make a large, laddered spread. The resulting blankets were judged by titans of industry including stylist Patricia Field and Style.com's Executive Editor Nicole Phelps.