Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami Celebrate Spring

In 2003, Louis Vuitton forever altered the face of fashion with its first collaboration with the celebrated Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, whose bright multicolored logo print became a Y2K icon. Two decades later, the industry is overflowing with similar partnerships, all of them trying to recreate the era-defining buzz of that first genius connection. It’s no surprise, then, that the French house has teamed up once again with Murakami, first in a re-edition of original pieces along with an expanded selection that sold out nearly immediately a few months ago, and now with a new capsule celebrating one of Japan’s most famous traditions, the welcoming of spring with the blooming of the sakura, or cherry blossoms. Reimagined in Murakami’s trademark cheerful cartoon style, the new bags, shoes, and scarves are a bright and gratifying way to mark the changing of the seasons. Captured here on Paris’s streets by photographer Clémentine Passet and stylist Julia Zagury, the pink-hued designs are a needed intimation of the warmer months to come.

The Louis Vuitton x Murakami collection is available now.