Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter + Steven Meisel
Here are the first images from Louis Vuitton’s new Fall/Winter campaign, featuring Madonna as shot by Touchpuppet favorite Steven Meisel. View the rest after the jump.
Superflat First Love by Takashi Murakami, Full Version
Full short film celebrating six years of collaboration between Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton. Love it. Check out the precursor to this video after the jump.
Louis Vuitton Sued For “Art Fraud”
An art collector has filed a lawsuit against Louis Vuitton after discovering that his $12,000 Murakami prints, purchased at the MOCA exhibition of Murakami’s work, came from repurposed materials (meaning they were just reused factory Louis Vuitton matterials). The company says art’s ‘ambiguity’ is part of the ‘bargain.’
They may not have realized it, but the folks who snapped up as much as $4-million worth of limited-edition prints by artist Takashi Murakami two years ago at the special Louis Vuitton boutique inside his exhibition at L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art apparently were getting nicely mounted handbags — minus the snaps and straps.
At least one buyer, Clint Arthur, is steamed enough to have sued Louis Vuitton for fraud. “Louis Vuitton . . . knew that neither [Arthur] nor anyone else would pay $6,000″ if it was clear they were getting factory leftovers from handbag production, says a legal memo that Arthur’s attorneys filed last week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, countering Louis Vuitton’s attempt to have Judge A. Howard Matz dismiss the case as groundless.
Awkwardly, the guy is refusing to take a refund of the $12,000 he paid for two prints, plus interest. Louis Vuitton contends that his suit is merely an “opportunistic” bid for “windfall profits.” If Clint was smart he’d just take his money and run.
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