Takashi Murakami releases preview of ‘Superflat First Love’ for Louis Vuitton

In 2003, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and Marc Jacobs collaborated on a new multicolor monogram for Louis Vuitton, resulting in a runaway hit. Murakami made an animated short for the line, ‘Superflat Monogram.’ In the fall of 2007, ‘©Murakami’ opened at MOCA Los Angeles, complete with a Louis Vuitton store in the museum, to the ire of museum purists. The show later traveled to the Brooklyn Museum. Murakami has partnered with Louis Vuitton for a new line, called ‘Multicolore Spring Palette,’ and made a new video for this line, too, titled ‘Superflat First Love.’ The five-minute video is currently available in Japan as a mobile download, but a preview has been uploaded to YouTube and can be seen below.



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