Ooh-la-la was in the air at the smashing new Louis Vuitton boutique in the Galleria Wednesday when the French luxury goods designer partnered with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for a dinner celebrating the store's trés chic facelift.

Valerie Chapoulaud-Floquet, president and CEO of Louis Vuitton North America, welcomed guests to "our new house in Houston," the fresh design much buzzed about among the social cognoscenti.

The evening served not only as an opportunity to shop and explore but also to announce a new partnership between the MFAH and Louis Vuitton. MFAH director Gary Tinterow revealed that the French firm will bring its globally-recognized "Art Talk" to Houston. The series, which Louis Vuitton has hosted in Los Angeles, Tokyo, London and Miami, launches this spring when Tinterow will chat with artist Jeff Koons on the museum's Picasso Black and White exhibition, which opens Feb. 24.

Chapoulaud-Floquet explained that the firm's sponsorship of the international "Art Talk" program saying, "It's our mission as well to open a new generation to art."

Following the champagne, the shopping and the brief remarks, 55 guests sat down to a sophisticated dinner by A Fare Extraordinaire at tables set with lush bouquets of peach-hued peonies and dressed in brown linens, with matching chair covers, made in New York especially for the evening.

Among the glamorous cocktail-attired group breaking bread together were Lynn Wyatt, Phoebe Tudor, Sara Dodd-Spickelmier, Christopher Gardner, Diane Lokey Farb, Becca Cason Thrash, Gregory Fourticq, Monsour Taghdisi and Henry Richardson, Sima Ladjevardian, Karen and Mike Mayell, Janet Gurwitch and Sheridan and John Eddie Williams.