Delphine Arnault: "Kusama cultivates an obsession with detail with its polka dots, Louis Vuitton with its monogram"

In 2006, to Marc Jacobs who came to meet his idol in his Tokyo studio, Yayoi Kusama proudly showed a Louis Vuitton bag whose canvas she had personally painted with her compulsive dots.

exclaimed the American, then artistic director of the trunk maker, in front of the camera of Loïc Prigent, who immortalized the moment in the documentary

(to be seen again!) .

The rest is fashion history, since in 2012, Vuitton and Kusama officially launched a landmark joint collection.

Ten years later, the two accomplices, whose notoriety and rating have continued to grow, are doing it again with Creating Infinity, more than 400 clothes, accessories, bags, perfumes and trunks contaminated by deceptively harmless graphic patterns.

The Japanese even left the psychiatric hospital in which she has lived for half a century, the time of a shooting for the advertising campaign released in December… Since…

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