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Microsite Launch | Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama

Louis Vuitton has collaborated with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama on a series of new products including leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes and accessories such as watches and jewelry.

To commemorate this collaboration the French luxury fashion label has launched a micro-site this past week, showcasing the partnership with Kusama.

At the moment, the Japanese contemporary artist is focusing on her current London and New York, with the Kusama-inspired Louis Vuitton Collection to be unveiled very soon. Discover the new Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama site here.

source: LV x Kusama

Posted 1 year ago

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Collaboration

Paris-based luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton has collaborated with Yayoi Kusama on a series of products including leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes and accessories such as watches and jewelry.

Marc Jacobs has worked closely with Japanese artist Kusama for this collection, which will be hitting Louis Vuitton boutiques early July 2012. Of course this isn’t Marc Jacobs first time, as the fashion designer has collaborated with contemporary artists such as Richard Prince, Stephen Sprouse and Takashi Murakami in the past.

Portrait of 82-year old artis Yayoi Kusama

To commemorate the collaboration special window installations are also planned and we are assuming that they might have something to do with Kusama’s signature polka dots.

82-year old Kusama is an artist with a unique aesthetic, she is known for her polka dot installations in rooms, on tree trunks and on people! The collaboration ties in with a major retrospective show on Kusama’s work which is planned to be showcased at London’s Tate Modern on February 9th, 2012 and will travel to Rome, Madrid and Paris.

We’re looking forward to this great collaboration!

source: readette

Posted 1 year ago

Louis Vuitton 2011 Holiday Accessories Collection

French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton presents their Holiday 2011 Accessories Collection in a very artistic manner for the Louis Vuitton man. The luxury brand cultivates the traveller’s spirit whether he’s on the move or dining out in style. The Louis Vuitton 2011 Holiday accessories collection features “essentials of timeless objects or House classics expressed with masculine air in iconic fabrics (Monogram, Damier) or precious leathers (Nomade, Taiga, Utah), branded with the LV initials. “ Included in the collection is a wide range of leather goods such as wallets, laptop cases and phone cases as well as eyewear, timepieces, scarfs and wristwear. The entire LV holiday collection can now be found now through Louis Vuitton boutiques and select stockists.

images via | source: ILLV

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Louis Vuitton’s Miel de la Belle Jardiniere Honey

Did you know that bee hives installed in the city can yield three to four times as much as hives in agricultural areas? Well, according to Pursuitist, in 2009, luxury brand Louis Vuitton installed three beehives on the roof of its headquarters on the Champs-Élysées in Paris welcoming as many as 200,000 city bees. Throughout 2010, the ‘city’ bees gathered 75KG (approximately 165 pounds) of nectar, from which the golden honey was produced. The honey was extracted directly by Bernard Arnault himself. The luxury brand has harvested their first batch called La Belle Jardiniere in signature LV packaging with the LV symbols on the sides. The product reads in fine print, “Produit a Paris par Louis Vuitton” (Produced in Paris by Louis Vuitton). Unfortunately for us, this honey will be given as a gift to friends and family of the house. So if you end up with a jar, consider yourself lucky!

images via | source: Pursuitist

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Louis Vuitton Polo Bike

Luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton came up with the concept to design a polo bike and a mallet during Summer 2011. Known for their perfection and their uber-luxe quality the luxury brand “collaborated with friends and fellow players Hannes Hengst and Grégory Barbier to manufacture an intricate and refined collection of parts. From the embossed leather pedal straps and mallet holders, to the machined chainring (by Victoire), etched barplugs, via the leather wheel cover, culminating with a spectacular hollowed out mallet head, attached to a fully wrapped shaft. All of it using the classic Vuitton patterns and shapes.”

Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton as always has impressed us by the attention paid to detail and the build quality. Not to mention the unique design, with the signature graphics applied on various parts of the bike’s design.

Intersection Magazine France were the first to get images of this unique bike; images of the Louis Vuitton Polo Bike are featured in the current issue of the magazine.

images via | source: arkitipintel

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Dale May “Lego Wars” Exhibition @ Samuel Owen Gallery

Celebrity and commercial photographer Dale May’s new opening, “Lego Wars,” finds Star Wars Lego figures shot in modern heroic portraiture. A study of popular culture, commercial advertising and nostalgia. As an adult, Dale May revisits these tiny plastic toys and photographs them in a way that returns them to the epic importance they once had as a child, reminding us why we needed to collect every single piece.

Iconic, nostalgic, yet timeless, the artist bring a new look to a subject that’s common place. Dale leaves nothing to chance, not only is the work impeccably crafted and well thought out but the material he has chosen to produce the Lego Wars series was no accident. Dale felt that the entire piece of art should resemble the high polished glossiness of the subject itself. Crafted in archival acrylic and backed with aluminum dibond, the work is given a look not unlike the plastic Star Wars Lego or something off the Death Star itself!

Once made from molded plastic, standing just over an inch and a half and in danger of being stepped on, these characters now stand tall, speak to us and demand attention! “Lego Wars” runs from December 15 through January 19, 2012 at the Samuel Owen Gallery.

Samuel Owen Gallery | 378 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830 - United States

Image Credits: Dale May “Lego Wars” Exhibition @ Samuel Owen Gallery - “Tiffany Snow Trooper”| (C) Dale May

Image Credits: Dale May “Lego Wars” Exhibition @ Samuel Owen Gallery - “Darth Vader”| (C) Dale May

Image Credits: Dale May “Lego Wars” Exhibition @ Samuel Owen Gallery - “Royal Guard”| (C) Dale May

Image Credits: Dale May “Lego Wars” Exhibition @ Samuel Owen Gallery - “Snow Troopers”| (C) Dale May

Image Credits: Dale May “Lego Wars” Exhibition @ Samuel Owen Gallery - “Storm Troopers”| (C) Dale May

Image Credits: Dale May “Lego Wars” Exhibition @ Samuel Owen Gallery | (C) Dale May

source: Samuel Owen Gallery, Dale May

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Louis Vuitton Island Maison Singapore | Video

Fly high above the very first Island Maison from Louis Vuitton located at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. The ever ubiquitous fashion house has made waves in the fashion and retail world when they announced Maison, a luxury store operating on a private island. Designed by famed architect, Peter Marino, Maison boasts both his and hers collections, jewelery and a truly unique bookstore. Island Maison marks the 12th Maison in the world, and the first in Southeast Asia. Enjoy aerial views of the new LV Island Maison!

source: LV youtube

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LUXURY Mass Designer Weapons

Would you kill for design? Get ready to explore the world of violent style, and a fabulous revolution with weapons of mass ‘designer’!

Image credits »> Peter Gronquist, “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show” /// (C) Peter Gronquist

California based artists Peter Gronquist and artist/designer guru Diddo have exhibited these sculptural artworks and we bring them to you as a collection of LUXURY Mass Designer Weapons. Peter Gonquist exhibited at a solo show at LA-based Gallery 1988 - The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show. Gronquist dresses up handheld weapons in luxury designer prints and logos. All the weapons are fake, and the message of Gronquist’s pop art sculptural collection is quite obvious, but if you had to carry a weapon would you do it in style?

Image credits »> Peter Gronquist, “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show” /// (C) Peter Gronquist

Image credits »> Peter Gronquist, “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show” /// Image via notcot

Image credits »> Peter Gronquist, “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show” /// (C) Peter Gronquist

Image credits »> Peter Gronquist, “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show” /// Image via notcot

Image credits »> Peter Gronquist, “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show” /// (C) Peter Gronquist

On the other hand, Amsterdam-based artist/designer guru Diddo explores the world of violent gas-masked style of luxurious art – and here I must note that the finishing and the execution of this project is of highest quality. According to Diddo, and I must agree we are in a state of perpetual war – with ourselves and with the eco-system that sustains us. Perpetual war breeds perpetual fear. In the present context, this fear stems from our extreme desire for authenticity and manifests itself in our collectively insatiable culture of consumption. Deep down, we are afraid we may never be satisfied. An expanding archive of branded myths and icons feeds this fear. Designer Gas Masks is an attempt to visualize this state of mind. Because it is only by first acknowledging and then challenging fear that we will all be able to breathe a little easier.

Image credits »> Designer guru Diddo, Stylish Apocalypse Show /// (C) Diddo

sources: Diddo, Peter Gronquist

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