Louis Vuitton's Yayoi Kusama First 2012 Collaboration

Another Look at Global Artist Yayoi Kusama's First Collab with Louis Vuitton in 2012 AOC Fashion & Style

These images are from the first collaboration in 2012, when Marc Jacobs was the Louis Vuitton creative director. Photographer Angelo Pennetta [IG] captured models Anais Pouliot and Romee Strijd, who were styled by Katie Grand. / Hair by Tina Outen; makeup by Miranda Joyce; set design by Robbie Doig

Original 2012 Text: No, this is not revenge of the pink dalmatians. Rather, it’s a rendering of a Louis Vuitton pop-up store, opening inside its New York’s SoHo boutique on July 10.

One of seven pop-ups globally, the boutique celebrates the LV collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who “never met a dot she didn’t like”, writes WWD. Other pink hot spots will appear in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.

On July 12, Yayoi Kusama’s major retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum in New York, with Louis Vuitton as the sponsor. The entire operation pink spots will “climax” on Aug. 23 with major installations in the Printemps flagship in Paris and another at Selfridges in London, breaking ranks and celebrate pumpkins.

Now 82 and living in a hospital for the mentally ill, Kusama has been painting since age 10, and has applied dots to canvases, tree trunks, entire rooms and even people.