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Jeff Koons on his first collaboration with Louis Vuitton.

  • Mabelle Mckey
  • Apr 17, 2017
  • 1 min read

I believe it's a quite fabulous marriage Jeff Koons, the American artist and flower-puppy creator who claims the highest figure ever paid for a work by a living artist has teamed up with the french fashion House Louis Vuitton.

Konn is the first artist the brand has invited to work with the distinctive monogrammed canvas, first coceived in1896 by George Vuittont to honour is late father. Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama have all scrawled, animeted and polka-dottedits surface in the year since Koon has in latest update. In addition to embazoning the bags with five major works, which include Fragonard's "young girl play with her dog" Rubens' "Tiger hunt" and Leonard Da Vinci's " Mona Lisa", the bag also include a new arrangemt of the house foils and dangling leather bunny charm.

The collection is colourful, bold and highly accesible even if the price tags pitch the products far beyond the pockets of most ordinary people ( £2,240 for a rubens backpack or a "speedy" decorated with Van Gogh wheat field, £1,960).

For Louis Vuitton the collaboration is also a way of reengaging people with dastier art works of the world's great gallery space. Loius Vuitton chief executive Michael Burke, who worked on the collaboaration along side Delphine Arnoult executive - vice president says that the bag will revive the master piece. And for costumers who like their luxury to come with added self-improvements tools, they have an educative side as well : each bag's interior is printed with a brief biography and scketch of the artist.


 
 
 

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