Hi Everyone,
On Saturday I went to London and visited
Selfridges on Oxford Street to see the Kusama Louis Vuitton Concept Store
because of my love of Marc Jacobs, the creative director of Louis Vuitton.
The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has
collaborated with Louis Vuitton to create a collection of clothes and
accessories all containing Kusama’s signature polka dot pattern. 
24 windows of the Selfridges store have been
dedicated to the Kusama Louis Vuitton collection. Some contain very lifelike
wax figures of Yayoi Kusama with one infront of a large revolving gold heart, some contain small dolls of Yayoi Kusama, some
contain manikins sporting the collection and some windows have big bright gold
letters and the dotty pattern.
Yayoi Kusama has lived in the open ward of a
mental hospital in Japan and she commutes to her art studio every day. Marc
Jacobs and Yayoi Kusama first met in 2006 and he has been a fan of her artwork
for many years. He said “The obsessive character and the innocence of her
artwork touch me.” Yayoi Kusama said that “Marc Jacobs’s sincere attitude
towards art is the same as my own. I respect him as a wonderful designer. Louis
Vuitton understands and appreciates the nature of my art. Therefore there isn’t
much difference from my process of making fashion.”
I loved the concept store at Selfridges. The outside
display cases looked amazing with quotations in large gold letters and dots
everywhere and the clothes and accessories on display look amazing and the
store inside looks incredible too. When you walk into that small part of
Selfridges it feels like you’ve been transported to a strange dotty wonderland
full of amazing clothes and bags decorated with large white dotty pumpkins, a
signature image of Kusama’s. Some of the dotty bags and scarves are to die for,
if only I could afford them *sighs*.
The concept store will be open in Selfridges until the 19th of October.
S x
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