An avant-garde visual artist, known worldwide for her endless repetitive use of polka dots, Yayoi Kusama was invited in 2012 to reinvent the different worlds of Louis Vuitton.
This included exhibitions, products as well as unique installations in LV store windows, displaying, among other things, an astonishingly realistic mannequin representing the artist.
Ten years later, the Parisian house continues its desire to illuminate its contemporary art creations by presenting a new successful collaboration, even more extensive, with the renowned artist.
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In video, The Louis Vuitton X Yayoi Kusama collaboration
To celebrate this colorful anniversary, a first chapter has just been unveiled by Louis Vuitton, where all the universes are revisited – leather goods, men's and women's ready-to-wear, perfumes, accessories… –, while waiting a second wave in March.
The pop art queen's obsessive stitches reign supreme.
Some, as if painted by hand in the artist's signature chromatic combinations, proliferate on the famous Monogram canvas, others, more futuristic, in the shape of small silver globes fixed on dark leathers, are represented on emblematic bags. of the house, but also on new models.
My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of a limitless universe, from my own position, using small dots
Yayoi Kusama
Each of these dots was supervised by Kusama himself, placed with precision, to the nearest millimeter;
each brushstroke has been suggested in detail to faithfully transcribe its texture and thickness.
The 93-year-old artist has been painting these famous Infinity Dots since the age of 10.
“My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of a boundless universe, from my own position, using small dots,” she recounts in her autobiography
Infinity Net
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Kusama's link with fashion?
"Like art, fashion is a vector of inspiration, of joy, and can help us to fight with force against the vagaries of life", continues the most highly rated living artist in the world (in 2019, one of her works went for 7.9 million dollars).
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“While I've been making my own clothes since I was a teenager, I also ran a fashion business in the 1960s. At that time, clothing and art were seen as two totally different genres.
But in my opinion, not making a distinction offers infinite freedom and therefore allows them to be explored in depth.
If Yayoi Kusama has the art and the way of linking the two creative worlds, the house of Louis Vuitton has the gift of capturing the spirit of the times.
According to the latest report from the consulting firm Bain & Company on the global luxury market in 2023, the combination of luxury, art and craftsmanship is a trend for the future.
Baudelaire said: “Art and fashion are linked to the beauty of the ephemeral of the times and the transformation of the banal.