"When Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami launched their first fashion-and-art mash-up in 2003, the multicolored handbags sparked a runaway sensation, selling out within hours and leaving thousands on a waiting list. It was among the earliest artist collaborations introduced by Marc Jacobs who, as the then creative director of Louis Vuitton, pioneered the idea that a rarefied house of high fashion might invite an outsider to reimagine its signature pieces."
"This year's Artycapucines VII Collection revives the collaboration between the French fashion house and Murakami, with the artist's creativity unleashed to its full polychrome, gleeful, and technically dazzling extremes. His interpretation of Europe's high fashion domain is viewed, as he puts it, "through the lens of fantasy - stories, animation, games." Murakami adds that the refined world he references is "rich with detail, elegance and imagination. I believe Artycapucines sits very close to that spirit, possessing a kind of fantasy point of view.""
The 2003 Louis Vuitton–Takashi Murakami collaboration introduced multicolored, logo-covered handbags that sold out within hours and produced long waiting lists. Marc Jacobs, then creative director, pioneered artist collaborations that invited external artists to reimagine signature luxury pieces. The new Artycapucines VII Collection revives that partnership, featuring eleven artist-designed Capucines bags produced in limited editions of a few hundred each. Designs emphasize polychrome color, playful animation-inspired motifs, technical craftsmanship, and a fantasy-infused reinterpretation of European high-fashion elegance. The collection aims to inject joy and imagination into couture through bold color, intricate detail, and collectible scarcity.
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