TIME Magazine loves their lists.

They’re already working on the 100 Most Influential People of 2009, and for the first time they’re letting readers get in on the voting process.

In the Best Designer category, they’ve lumped together fashion, art and architecture - though the latter two categories include Renzo Piano, Damien Hirst, Rem Koolhas and Takashi Murakami, all of whom have serious fashion cred.

The actual fashion designers on the list include Stella McCartney and Tom Ford, though we wonder if Stella’s influence comes more from her commitment to veganism than necessarily pushing fashion forward. As for Tom Ford, he’s influenced Brad Pitt and caused a toe-sucking uproar,but hasn’t necessarily started a fashion revolution this particular year.

Granted, it’s unusually early in the year to pick the most influential designer of 09. Bu given the season we’ve just seen, who would you pick?

By now you’ve surely heard all the buzz surrounding tonight’s ball at the Brooklyn Museum celebrating Takashi Murakami’s “Murakami” exhibit.

Kanye West will perform, Marc Jacobs will pose, Jay-Z might appear…yadda yadda. As always, we’re most concerned with the fashion.

At left is the LV camouflage print designed for the event (which we think is actually pretty genius), which will be sold, along with other LV bags, at tonight’s event via ten New York street vendor style booths. The move is meant to showcase just how serious Louis Vuitton is about cracking down on fakes, a part of the company’s new “zero tolerance” policy on counterfeits. They’re even having a press conference about it right before tonight’s event.

No word on whether Marc’s Göran Olofsson scarf will be sold alongside other LV goodies…