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Louis Vuitton waffle maker
07.24.2012
01:58 pm
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If you’re a charter member of the 1% (or just want to be cheeky) might I suggest the Louis Vuitton waffle maker by Andrew Lewicki?

Via Booooooom!

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.24.2012
01:58 pm
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Self-obliteration for Very Rich People: Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton?
07.13.2012
11:52 am
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The great Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama made her first US appearance in over 30 years yesterday, when the 83-year-old artist visited Louis Vuitton’s Fifth Avenue location to see the amazing displays the company’s flagship Manhattan showroom had come up with—including wrapping the building in one of her signature dot arrangements—to publicize their new collaboration.

Back in the late 60s/early 70s, Kusama’s performance art “happenings” (often performed nude, with body paint) saw her get as much attention from the press as say, Andy Warhol or Peter Max. She famously wrote a letter to Richard Nixon offering to fuck him if he would stop the Vietnam war. She staged “The Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead at the MOMA” in 1969 and officiated gay marriages as early as 1968 at her “Homosexual Wedding at the Church of Self-obliteration” event. Kusama lived in New York City for several years (1957-1973), before returning to Japan and a life voluntarily spent in a psychiatric hospital.

Yayoi Kusama suffers from an extremely extreme case of OCD. Although she is an extremely productive artist, and fully recognized the world over as one of Japan’s greatest artists, her gift comes with a price. Speaking about her 1954 painting “Flower (D.S.P.S)” she described her inner life:

“One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space, and be reduced to nothingness. As I realized it was actually happening and not just in my imagination, I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest I should be deprived of my life by the spell of the red flowers. I ran desperately up the stairs. The steps below me began to fall apart and I fell down the stairs straining my ankle.

“If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago” she once said.
 
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Yayoi Kusama’s collaboration with the label, I have to say (and this is coming from someone who thinks Louis Vuitton luggage should be spit on and kicked by every airport worker who comes into contact with it) is pretty inspired. It actually “works” for the brand and was a really good idea. Whoever thought of this, good job!

Not that I condone $8000 luggage or $5000 purses, I most certainly don’t, but I’d rather see rich people’s money going to Yayoi Kusama than just about any other artist I can think of.

(Next Louis Vuitton needs to hire Paul Laffoley to design something major for them)

More photos at Buzzfeed.
 
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After the jump, Yayoi Kusama’s 1967 film, “Kusama’s Self Obliteration”

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Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.13.2012
11:52 am
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Casa Louis Vuitton
09.02.2009
01:04 am
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I wonder if it’s real or counterfeit?

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(via blogardulceblogar)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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09.02.2009
01:04 am
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