We’ve been avoiding the MOMA store on Spring St. because we can’t go in and out without buying a piece of really amazing jewelry.

But we have little self control when it comes to shopping so we’ll be heading there after work for this Murano glass bubble necklace by Marina and Susanna Sent.

The artists, who grew up in a family of Venetian glass blowers, strung the lightweight glass balls on a thick white rope to create one of the most perfect summer necklaces we’ve ever seen.

Will pair with a strapless dress, layer with lapis beads over a white t-shirt a la Dries, and wear it pretty much every day for the next three months.

We might even blow some pink Bubble Yum for extra effect.

It’s times like this that we really wish we lived in London.

The London Design Museum is hosting a lecture series called Design Icons, and who did they get to give an appearance? Vivienne Westwood, of course.

Not only is she giving a talk on May 2 (Roland Mouret will speak on April 15), but she is set to perform her cultural manifesto, Active Resistance to Propoganda, which we take to mean as Vivienne yelling into the crowd wearing something Xena-esque and giving a straight up fist pump as finale.

So if you’re lucky enough to live in London and can spare the 15 pounds, request your tickets via tickets@designmuseum.org. We bet it’ll be better than anything that’s ever at the Met.

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…

We all know Miuccia Prada is really into art and Rem Koolhaas, and now she’s bringing her two loves even closer together in her hometown.

The Prada Foundation just bought an exhibition space in the south of Milan to be turned into a museum, (design by Prada-stores architect Koolhaas), within the next three or four years.

There’s going to be a full story on it in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, in which Miuccia explains that, “art is more or less [her] second career.”

The space is meant to be not just a museum, but a “cultural center” with room for Miuccia’s “collection” to be on view.

Could this be the future venue for Prada AW12? (God that looks weird.)

Maybe Sasha can donate some of her drawings, then it would really be an art/fashion collision…

Today in Women’s Wear Daily, reporter Whitney Beckett goes “undercover” to test out how Thom Browne is being sold to Brooks Brothers’ customers.

(I should confess now that Whitney and I were partners in crime at Duke, so her new extracurric intrigues me, but also: How does a groomed Texas blonde go “undercover” at Brooks Brothers? With a fake lisence from Connecticut? Questions for another day, and another girl.)

Anyway, Whitney found the Brooks Brothers’ / Thom Browne merger to be fun and slightly overpriced, just like Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, where I went today and saw an exhibit of Thom Browne’s clothes. They hung as part of a show on industrial design. There were also some pieces by Narciso Rodriguez, Zero Maria Cornejo, Nike, and Kid Robot, plus an actual robot that said “Hey baby, gimme five” when you walked past it.

The offer was tempting, but instead I camped out by the Thom Browne stuff to see how museumgoers would react. The place has a neat policy of letting anyone under 18 in for free, so there were lots of families and especially (for some reason) lots of preteen girls.

Sort of funny: Most didn’t understand the clothes were actually for men. “That’s a pretty jacket,” said one, staring at a blazer threaded with silver tinsel. “Like in The Parent Trap, the old one,” said another girl to her friend, as she pointed at long, slim shorts.

Sort of predictable: Most adults said something about the pants being too short. But it’s still interesting to consider whether Mr. Browne’s silhouette will one day flood the mainstream, or whether it’s just something for hipsters, fops, and really cute skinny guys.

At the other end of the design hall were wigs designed by Orlando Pita, showcased along with an image of Mr. Pita with Lily Donaldson, which appeared two years ago in Vogue.

I took the Lily D. sighting as my cue to leave, but not before the robot called “Hey baby” again as I searched for the exit.