A friend of mine gave me a tip-off about the new Louis Vuitton windows at the V&A Waterfront…  seems the folks at Louis Vuitton have gotten all arty & stuff and thus decided to do a collaboration with Japanese sculptor, painter & novelist Yayoi Kasuma.

Now I’m not going to act like I knew who the hell Yayoi Kasuma was beforehand… and if you’re sitting there reading this going “oh yeah it’s that chick that did blah and blah”, you’re totally lying.   I had to resort to a good Google stalk session, but I’m really glad I did, cause this lady’s stuff is pure awesome.  She’s definitely got a new fan here.

Yayoi is known for being obsessed with dots, she also loves bright colours and interesting shapes and she’s raised quite a few eyebrows during her career.  Sounds like my kinda lady then…  She spent a large part of her life living & working in New York where she got quite a lot of exposure, then she moved back to Japan in 1973 where she has continued to create, provoke & inspire all the way.  Do a bit of reading up on her for yourself, her journey’s quite interesting.

Anyhoo, back to those windows.  Check ‘em out:

Doesn’t this remind you of a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean?  I soooooo badly wanted to touch it…

And then this is most certainly very Alice in Wonderland…

But it’s not just the window displays that’s gone all dotty, there’s also a range of dotty shoes and bags and accessories waiting for you:

Ooooooh…  it’s so shiny…

For more dottiness, check out the launch of the first Yayoi Kasuma concept store in Singapore here.  Also the Louis Vuitton Yayoi Kasuma mini site here.

And if you now have a weird urge to do a connect the dots puzzle, don’t stress, it’s perfectly normal.  Just hop on over here and get it out of your system.

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