Fashion + Art: Connecting the dots between Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama

   That collaborations between artists and fashion designers presupposes that the artist fashion designers and stylists are not artists. Things are not so simple. However, significant fertilization is rare. "Often brands collaborate with artists to increase their cultural capital," says Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at FIT. "The result is often more arty than art."

But the best collaborations, the result is unrealistic. Business partnerships between Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali in 1930, and Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian collection in 1965, which has kept the spirit of the artist in life, even though he died 10 years earlier. Perhaps the most striking recent example of this collaboration is. Louis Vuitton with the reclusive Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama

Kusama and Louis Vuitton artistic director Marc Jacobs is in New York in the 60's too late, as Jacobs overlap one shares boy of fifteen, and Kusama, then a mid-career artists had rode the tail Fluxus. They have never met, and shortly after Kusama returned to Japan, voluntarily living in a mental institution. Jacobs, meanwhile, to put it mildly, climbed up the ladder.

It was not until 2006, when Jacobs visits the artist in his studio, their collaboration appeared on the horizon. "The fact that [Kusama] is never his vision really admirable," says Jacobs. Six years later, the result of his debut in June: a collection of apparel, accessories, handbags and shoes, adorned with peas, which Kusama has since the 1950s are obsessed himself. Highlights of the collection include a silk dress, a trench coat cotton glued plastic charm complex, and [if ornamental] fake smile reminded the artist's sculptures classic pumpkin. Perhaps the apotheosis of this collaboration is a model in which Kusama dots are merged with Louis Vuitton logo. It is neither simple nor easy, the art of fashion. Instead, it confuses the distinction between the two, creating a hybrid living life.