Louis Vuitton's artistic director Marc Jacobs is no stranger to collaborations with the art world. Remember those graffiti-monogrammed bags every mother-daughter duo was carrying around in 2009, thanks to the pairing of Louis Vuitton and Stephen Sprouse?
Well, come July, every girl and her mother will be going dotty for their newest collaboration with 82-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who is known for her red-and-white polka dot installations — seen on everything from tree trunks to people.
Her spots will appear on Louis Vuitton products ranging from ready-to-wears pieces to shoes (!) and bags to jewelry, and the collection will tie in with a large retrospective of Kusama's work, which opens at London's Tate Modern on Feb. 9.
Special window installations based on Kusama's famous polka dots are also scheduled for the July release.
Text Olivia Fleming
Source WWD
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