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Marc Jacobs met in Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama in 2006 during the filming of a documentary Loïc Prigent the Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton. And so began the latest in a long series of collaborations between Louis Vuitton and art world luminaries.
The company has been with Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince and his friend Jacobs, Stephen Sprouse, a part of the fruits that have worked have become bestsellers.
Damien Hirst was responsible for a pharmacy degree for the brand, Grayson Perry and Tracy Emin have both been commissioner of the library at its flagship store in London.
Louis Vuitton Art Talk program, meanwhile, saw Vanessa Beecroft, Marc Quinn, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antony Gormley, among other things, talking to a select group of guests.
The company sponsors art shows all over the world, most recently a traveling retrospective of works by Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern opens at the Whitney Museum in New York later this month.
"The artists I chose to work in the past, all people whose work meant something to me personally - World Kusama, says Jacobs, the most famous, is a pre-occupied by points: his own life." A point in a million lost from other points, she once said. So it is no surprise that summer dress covered in silk, swimsuits, pajamas, and with them were.
On sale later this month, she will follow at the end of August, through a broader range of goods monogram, Murakami is as colorful drawings should be in the permanent collection of Louis Vuitton.
"The Monogram canvas is so obsessed with how Yayoi points - said Louis Vuitton CEO Yves Carcelle Women's Wear Daily, as broke the news of this aspect of the first cooperation.
The initials "with stylized flowers LV-riddled first appeared on the stems as far back as 1896, and is now almost as recognizable as Coca-Cola. These projects" tend to be a commercial success, because his strength of the artist and the power-Vuitton is Carcelle.
The fact that the luxury goods company, the cash cow in the conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), is known. This is not the driving force behind these projects, however. "He has not put products on the shelves -. Instead, the symbiotic relationship between art and fashion, the image is improved when the fashion designer is exclusive, and fine art even more, after all ..
Scarlet Hair Kusama, who is now 83, began painting as a teenager at the beginning of his native Japan, assumed an expression means to reduce childhood trauma. Only in the 1950s and 1960s, after moving to New York that his career really took off, his work alongside Andy Warhol and George Segal are shown.
For Kusama, who has lived since 1977 in a psychiatric hospital by choice and now called himself "a neighborhood of artists, expanding its reach and experience is much more attractive.
"I expect that, as with our other collaborations that will bring the work of another public Kusama, - Jacobs confirmed." It is wonderful how contemporary art permeates the environment. -