L’Officiel Malaysia – July 2019

L’Ofciel Style 49

YAYOI KUSAMA

Yayoi Kusama is another artist whose oeuvre seems tailor-made

for a Louis Vuitton collaboration. The visual harmony of the LV

monogram mashed up with Kusama’s spots was undeniable,

with Jacobs calling both motifs “endless and timeless”. A

prolific icon of the 1960s art world, Kusama produced works

in multiple disciplines ranging from painting and sculpture to

performance, installations and fashion. Unnervingly bold, the

most famous of her surrealist work creates the illusion of an

infinite universe with entire rooms, objects, costumes, even

performers and animals covered in her signature repetitive

spots. Fittingly, the Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama collection,

which launched in 2012, was the brand’s most extensive

collaboration with an artist, with Kusama’s spots splashed on

all forms of ready-to-wear pieces and accessories.