The 63-year-old Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the oldest son of a taxi driver and a homemaker, grew up in a one-room ...

Long before designer collaborations were the norm, Louis Vuitton's then-creative director Marc Jacobs teamed up with Takashi Murakami to debut a line of handbags that would go down in fashion history.

It's now been 20 years since Louis Vuitton dropped its iconic collaboration with the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. And as all things Y2K go around, the collab came back around for an ...

Louis Vuitton x Murakami is regarded as the defining fashion collaboration of the early aughts, and it remained in production, with variations added periodically, until Jacobs left the brand ...

Late in December, Louis Vuitton announced that it would be reinvigorating its collaboration with Murakami with a ‘re-edition’ collection which will be revealed in chapters throughout 2025 (a splashy ...

Such is the fuss around the first chapter of the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami re-edition. Back in 2003, the quirky Japanese artist added playful splashes of colour to the French maison’s ...

Up there in the pantheon of fashion greats, artist Takashi Murakami’s painterly collaborations with Louis Vuitton – debuted for spring/summer 2003, when Marc Jacobs was at the helm, and officially ...

Whether it was shopping for pieces from the re-edition, getting your archival ones repaired, or simply enjoying a coffee in a ...

Speaking of LV, Murakami sits before me dripped out in monochrome garms (matching his black hair and silver facial hair) from the French maison. Except for the socks. “They’re Chrome Hearts, ...