Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Taps Cate Blanchett & Justin Timberlake + 4 | May 2023 New York Opening Awaits

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Taps Cate Blanchett & Justin Timberlake + 4 | May 2023 New York Opening Awaits

Louis Vuitton taps six new talents and image-makers to its second drop in the Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 collaboration.

Mega stars Australian actor Cate Blanchett and Amercan music artist Justin Timberlake, a ‘friend of the house’ but not an ambassador, are joined by South Korean actor HoYeon Jung, French actor Lea Seydoux, tennis pro Naomi Osaka and Chinese actor Zhou Congyu.

Photographer Steven Meisel is again behind the lens with Carine Roitfeld in charge of styling. Creative Director Ferdinando Verderi worked with makeup artist Pat McGrath to create henna-like tattoos on the faces and bodies of the talents that twin the artworks decorating their corresponding Capucines and Monogram handbags.

Yayoi Kusama will open her largest exhibition in New York on May 12. Her exhibition, titled “I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers,” will include new paintings, sculptures featuring her signature flower and pumpkin motifs and a new Infinity Mirrored Room.

David Zwirner’s West 19th and West 20th street galleries will host the event.

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama with Chloe Tang Covers Citizen Kane X-CENTRIC 2022.23

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama with Chloe Tang Covers Citizen Kane X-CENTRIC 2022.23

Model Chloe Tang is next up in what will probably be a lovely hailstorm of colorful Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama confetti dots in fashion stories that launch 2023.

how grand would it be if we optimists and non-haters had a Yayoi Kusama umbrella? They exist and not at a price of $500. This is yet another example of a global secret society we can create . . . together.

Photographer Ayetekin Yalçın [IG] captures Chloe Tang for the Citizen Kane X-CENTRIC winter 2022/23 issue.

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Collab Debuts in Vogue Netherlands January 2023 by Koto Bolofo

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Collab Debuts in Vogue Netherlands January 2023 by Koto Bolofo

Vogue Netherlands gets the jump on fashion stories centered on the Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama collaboration, a sequel to the 2012 first project between the two global juggernauts.

Critically-acclaimed artist Yayoi Kusama has been breaking new ground for more than six decades and is now 93 years old. Known for her use of dots in multiple artistic media, do not think for one minute that Kusama’s art is created as a fashion statement.

Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. –Yayoi Kusama

Drop Dates

The initial drop will launch on New Year’s Day, January 1 exclusively in China and Japan, followed by the rest of the world on the 6th.

The second drop of the Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 collab will only be available in Louis Vuitton stores from March 31, 2023.

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 Campaign Preview with Gisele by Steven Meisel

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 Campaign Preview with Gisele by Steven Meisel

Fashion world got a major wakeup this morning with a preview of the January 2023 Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama campaign.

Yayoi Kusama, Age 93, Rolls Again with Louis Vuitton

LV makes a big move putting Gisele Bundchen front and center in a second, historical collaboration with revered Japanese creative Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s pre-eminent artists at age 93.

“One of the aspects of her [Yayoi Kusama’s] work is happiness, and we thought it would be really refreshing after the pandemic to have the worlds of Vuitton and the world of Kusama meet again,” Arnault explained. The successful first collaboration between the two global giants happened in 2012.

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