Louis Vuitton Ends Its 13-Year Relationship With Takashi Murakami
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Louis Vuitton Ends Its 13-Year Relationship With Takashi Murakami
The Takashi Murakami x Louis Vuitton collaboration represented “The ultimate crossover—one for both the fashion and art history books” (MacDonell, 2025). The collaboration, which spanned across decades featured a variety of Louis Vuitton Luxury items with Murakami’s iconic bright colours, characters and symbols pictured over it. This collaboration
... See moreMurakami’s work extends to mass-produced items such as toys, key chains, and t-shirts. In 2002 he began a multiyear collaboration with Marc Jacobs on the redesign of the Louis Vuitton monogram. Murakami then took the radical step of directly incorporating the Vuitton monograms and patterns into his paintings and sculptures. While Murakami’s imagery... See more
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Jacobs, for his part, reserved his most insightful comment for the Bilbao portion of the tour. “It has been, and continues to be, a monumental marriage of art and commerce,” he said then. “The ultimate crossover—one for both the fashion and art history books.”