FASHION FEATURES
What I would like to put across through all of my art is, I suppose, questions of what human life is, what humans are about, what the earth is about, what the universe is about. And the single message is, really, “love forever”.
Released last July, a collection issued from the collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Marc Jacobs will interpret the most emblematic artworks of the dot-obsessed artist. Louis Vuitton pays tribute to the remarkable artist for whom Marc Jacobs, Artistic Director of the House, has great admiration. “The obsessive character and the innocence of her artwork touch me. She succeeds in sharing her vision of the world with us,” said Jacobs who visited her studio in 2006. The commencing points for the collaboration were “obsession” and “seriality.” Repetitive patterns are all over the luxury goods of leather ready-to-wear shoes, accessories, bags, watches, and
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other jewelry. As if creating equilibrium, this hallucinatory proliferation also spread in the Louis Vuitton windows worldwide named with biomorphicshaped nerved sculptures named as “BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE,” and flowers titled as “ETERNAL BLOOMING FLOWERS IN MY MIND.” Louis Vuitton has always preserved a close connection with the world of art and this by far is their most celebrated and prosperous art-union. The most noticeable difference between Kusama and other artists is that she has always showed a high degree of sense, skill, and flair; her work, rather than being stuck in a monotonous track, has grown and transformed through her
entire career. There is always a sense of variation, of shifts in methods, scale, and substance but the same intensity pulses through them all. “I’ve been active in many different spheres of the arts, whether it be writing novels, creating fashion or pure art by itself. What I would like to put across through all of my art is, I suppose, questions of what human life is, what humans are about, what the earth is about, what the universe is about. And the single message is, really, “love forever”.”