Yayoi Kusama: Self Obliteration on Nowness.com Repetition can sometimes incite chaos but how beautiful it is in the hands of Yayoi Kusama. The notion of the thing that makes you happy being the same thing to destroy you, is for some, difficult to understand. Yet, for Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whom you might remember from […]
More Reasons To Heart Marc
(photo: Fernanda Calfata) Besides the clothes, accessories, fragrances and just the man himself, after hearing Marc Jacobs at the 92Y this past Wednesday, I left loving him even more. Part of the Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis series, Marc’s raw honesty, enthusiasm + ‘exaggerated’ humility (like dropping the names of his nutritionist, psychiatrist, tattoo artist + […]
How Polka-Dots Took Over Louis Vuitton Yesterday Was Just As I Imagined
(photo: Joe Schildhorn) Simply Perfection! As a lover of repetition and patterns alike, when news of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama coming to town via a Whitney retrospective of her art and a collaboration with Louis Vuitton dropped, I just couldn’t hold back the enthusiasm sparking my hair into more of a frizzy mess – thanks […]
Mommy, Mommy, Can I Too See Dots Since The Louis Vuitton And Yayoi Kusama Capsule Collection Doesn’t Come In My Size?
Of Course They Can, With This Version Of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland With Artwork By Yayoi Kusama. Produced in collaboration with the Kusama Studio, Tokyo and Gagosian Gallery, this version of falling down the rabbit hole and the goings-on there entitled ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ will definitely take you there conceptually and beautifully. While […]
If you can’t get enough previews of Louis Vuitton’s collaboration with brilliant Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, (especially with the premiere of their first capsule collection dropping June 12), here’s a little something to make it all better – at least for a little bit. Both Kusama and Vuitton created the video above, entitled ‘Princess and […]
For those of you who can’t get enough of Yayoi Kusama, Vuitton collaboration or not, here’s the trailer for KUSAMA: Princess of Polka Dots. Not only do you get to take a peek at her drawing/obsessing process + talking about it but you also get to hear a bit about her background and how she […]
As If Louis Vuitton Doesn’t Suffer From Enough OCD, Come July, It’ll Get A Second Layer Of Repetition
Courtesy Of The Genius Japanese Artist, Yayoi Kusama (photo: ART REVIEW) Already one of my favorite artists for years now, I was very excited to hear about the upcoming collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama. Recently, WWD reported how Marc Jacobs had already alerted the masses of this pairing during his 2006 visit to […]