See Spot. Run and Cop These Pants.

My life sometimes feels like a high-wire act, one that requires nimbly balancing any number of competing goals and desires. I've decided that if you're gonna go through life walking a tightrope, might as well do it in style! These cranberry-colored silk polka-dot trousers ($1,250, detail, at right) from Louis Vuitton's spring/summer 2009 collection, had me seeing spots when they were first previewed last Spetember. Enough to make a girl drop the bad-news Business section of The New York Times and join the circus. And now the parachute pants are everywhere: Model Jourdan Dunn sported them in a February 2009 Vogue spread; Lindsay pairs them with a boyfriend blazer and midriff-baring tee on the cover of Nylon's April 2009 anniversary issue, and Ms. Ciccone features them in the latest LV campaign.

Forget the Chocolates, Fellas

If the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then the straight path to a woman's left and right ventricles is surely through her feet. Just in time for Valentine's Day, Kanye's design collaboration with designer Marc Jacobs, who is at the helm of the house of Louis Vuitton, has been unveiled. A particularly generous BF can pre-order the monochromatic red sneaks (all men's sizes, so convert) at a recession-defying price point, available at LV stores in June. If these don't keep the keep the love on lockdown, don't know what will.