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"   The winning project. Photo: Parsons  The fashion world may be back from Paris, but it can&amp;#039;t quite let go. Last night, Louis Vuitton hosted a cocktail party to celebrate Parsons&amp;#039; students. A few teams of four kids were given a challenge: Working with pieces from Vuitton collections past, build a conceptual piece to comment on the brand&amp;#039;s heritage. The students spent Tuesday in the Soho store deconstructing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of samples and rebuilding them into colorful textured quilts. Even the most devoted Marc Jacobs fan would have trouble identifying a particular look, but the seasons themselves were slightly more obvious. Last night, the judges \u2014 including Pat Field and Louis Vuitton&amp;#039;s SVP Geoffroy van Raemdonck \u2014 chose the winners: Janelle Abbott, Zachary Clark, Emily Hudson, William Norris. Their theme was time travel, &amp;quot;The blanket became a topographical map of space and time,&amp;quot; they said. &amp;quot;It maps the travels of a life; it alludes to the travels of a brand. But when you get right down to it: no matter what currently graces the surface layer, if you travel through time, through the layers and the grooves, you will find that these layers, both hidden and exposed, the layers of time contained within all of us, have accumulated on a firm foundation, and have built, and are continuing to build, an unwavering legacy.&amp;quot; The lucky foursome wins a trip to Paris and tours of the LV headquarters and archives. Later on last night, Waris Ahluwalia&amp;#039;s pop-up tea shop underneath the highline hosted a reading of Gustave Flaubert&amp;#039;s Madame Bovary. Playboy played co-host, generously providing blankets to both keep the crowd warm and encourage &amp;quot;naughty behavior,&amp;quot; and the magazine&amp;#039;s Executive Editor introduced Paz de la Huerta who tried her damndest to pronounce Rodolphe&amp;#039;s name. It may not have turned out to be the most literary event, but the crowd didn&amp;#039;t seem to care. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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