Art Plus Fashion - Louis Vuitton The best collaborations of the Maison with contemporary artists in the last decade

Art and fashion are fragments of a mirror that reflect specular images. The one is lost in the other, it merges, confuses to give shape to unique designs. From COMME des GARÇONS to Chanel, from Prada to Gucci, the brands that have collaborated or were inspired by artists and works are many, but if there is a mansion inherently tied to that world, Louis Vuitton.

Just a few days ago the presentation of a collection of bags and accessories made with Jeff Koons cemented a long tradition begun by Marc Jacobs of collaborations and exchanges of ideas, enriched before him, among others, by Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, James Turrell, Olafur Eliasson and Daniel Buren.

Here's how art and fashion have twisted each other at Louis Vuitton over the past ten years. 

Louis Vuitton x Jeff Koons - 2017

American Richard Prince's nursing paintings, one of the most expensive paintings of a live artist auctioned, become the inspiration for one of Marc Jacobs's most iconic collections for Vuitton.

If looks and outfits are an obvious tribute to the Nurses series, mysterious nurses wearing chapels and surgical masks, references of a vintage pulp novel’s cover, the bags recall the Jokes used by Prince in his other work.