luxury brand Louis Vuitton that converted store Worldwide for the launch of the long-awaited capsule collection with Japanese contemporary artists Yayoi Kusama.
With the launch of the collaboration, many major stores around the world Kusama. Louis Vuitton‘s Champs Elysees store.
Louis Vuitton’s Paris store is one of many locations decorated to commemorate the collaboration.
Louis Vuitton’s Champs-Élysées store, an Art Deco building built in 1912, encompasses Kusama’s greatest activity. Large Brush Polka dots of his strokes are placed across the facade of the building, paired with an oversized human-like replica of Kusama tied to the roof of the building and peered into it.
A Louis Vuitton pop-up store in New York’s Meatpacking District has been transformed into a ‘canvas’ for Kusama’s vision. The space was draped in yellow with black polka dots of varying sizes on the walls, floor and ceiling.
Reflective chrome spheres in the shape of the Louis Vuitton logo are suspended throughout the interior of the pop-up space, endlessly reflecting the speckled motifs and capsule collections displayed throughout the space.
“To celebrate its latest collaboration with New York’s Yayoi Kusama, Louis Vuitton will open a special pop-up space in the Meatpacking District, transforming Yayoi Kusama’s vision and iconic art into a canvas, on January 6th. will be open to the public on
A pop-up in Soho, New York, is similarly decorated with the Kusama speckled motif, with patches of brushstrokes in shades of red, green, white, and blue covering the whitewashed storefront, interior walls, ceiling, and floor. I was.
The collection is Kusama’s second collaboration with Louis Vuitton and the first in 10 years since the fashion house and artist first collaborated in 2012.
In 2006, Louis Vuitton’s then-creative director Marc Jacobs approached Kusama and met her at her studio to hand-paint the Louis Vuitton Ellipse bag in the famous polka dot motif. This made her one of Vuitton’s most successful artist collaborations.
Six years later, in 2012, Jacobs was released. Collection of Kusama-painted bags and ready-to-wear For the 2012 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
The pop-up space in Harajuku, Tokyo continues the theme of yellow and black. has a black base with yellow spots on it.
Elsewhere in the world, in select Louis Vuitton stores, Mr. Kusama’s lifelike, human-scale animatronics are placed in window displays, and Mr. Kusama’s robotic replica repeats polka dots on the glass surface. I saw you drawing.
2020, Kusama More than 1,000 disco balls were placed on the surface of the pond, and the trees were wrapped in polka dots. At the New York Botanical Garden as part of an outdoor exhibit.
Louis Vuitton recently announced A collection of 200 trunks reimagined by 200 architects and designersincluding Frank Gehry and Sou Fujimoto, celebrating the 200th birthday of its founders.
Photo courtesy of Louis Vuitton.