I was thinking about how Takashi Murakami must have seen the Louis Vuitton Neverfull as a canvas that just needed to be painted! It’s a great frame for those distinctive Hands!

Nicky Hilton looks fantastic with hers. I love how it complements her jacket- and really brings the outfit together.

For those of you who haven’t been able to attend the Murakami Exhibit at LA’s MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art)… this bag’s for you! As you know, they have been sold out in the GM size- and the exhibit is closing in a little over a week.

If you’re loving Nicky’s look- we’ve got an authentic Louis Vuitton Murakami Neverfull GM on eBay right now.  Free shipping for my blog readers on this one! Just enter coupon code: 22blog

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You don’t say? It looks like the blue hair is here to stay. Obviously not for as long as his new red “M&M” character tattoo… but it’s permanent haircolor, none the less.

Anyway, the top picture is of course, Marcy Marc with Takashi Murakami at their party at MOCA. You know we bought as much as they’d let us (two items per person!) Here’s one of our purchases:

The ultra limited Edition Murakami Neverfull GM. Keep watching our authentic Louis Vuitton eBay/Murakami listings… we’re keeping some, but listing a bunch too!

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OK… I thought it would be fun to play 6 degrees of Separation!  This is a game that became a spin-off with the 80’s trivia time blower, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You know, the test of the truly small world, where you pick any famous person and you have to connect them to Kevin Bacon in film roles in 6 degrees or less.

But, this is a luxe bag blog, so instead of Kevin Bacon, I’ll be connecting to Marc Jacobs in honor of his wildly successful collaboration with Louis Vuitton, and his engenius insight to bring Takashi Murakami into the mix, which has just been celebrated like mad this week in the @Murakami grand opening exhibit this week at MOCA in LA.

I wanted to pick someone who I could think of absolutely no similarities or connections with Marc.  I thought it would be timely to do some of the 2008 Presidential Candidates, as I figured all but H.R.C (who may just  be a close and personal friend, since MJ did a bunch of cool promo pieces for her recently) probably fall into this catagory!

As a nod to the amazing grassroots effort and insane but creative marketing methods put forth by the Ron Paul campaign- I thought I’d start there. I also thought it would be fun to see if I get any of those zainy Ron Paul rEVOLution postings on my blog as a result! Everyone else seems to be shy about commenting… so I thought I’d see if this would bring some comments out of the woodwork!!!

I won’t be using film roles for my connections, but just any pictures of two people together!!!

Here we go: Six Degrees of Marc Jacobs… Ron Paul style!

Here we have Ron Paul & Ronald Reagan on Airforce One in 1976.

Then of course you have Ronald Reagan and Steven Spielberg after the ET showing in the White House.

Steven Spielberg directed Drew Barrymore in ET. Why does it always make me kind of sad to see pictures of her as a little girl?

Drew Barrymore not only starred with Luke Wilson in Home Fries, but they had a little thing going on for a while.

Luke Wilson played alongside Reese Witherspoon in the Legally Blonde movies…

Reese is a big fan of MJ’s. Here she is at Kate Hudson’s Halloween party Saturday night. After seeing the MJ tutu pics, the cheerleading costume is pretty much par for the course.

Well, that was pretty easy. I’d love a challenge! Give me a suggestion, and I’ll try to connect them with MJ!

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Wow! This is totally not going to shup up the nay-sayers who are backing Dana Thomas’ claim that Louis Vuitton is the McDonalds of Luxury brands (in her recent book, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster.) Louis Vuitton has opened a little “Pop-up” shop right in the middle of LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

(I blogged about the @Murakami exhibit there a few weeks ago. It’s running from TODAY until February 11.)

The bizarre thing is that Louis Vuitton is opening this little shop- and it will run totally autonomously (kind of like the little mini-boutiques in Saks or Neimans). They’ll be selling a whole smattering of limited-edition Murakami designed pieces, esspecially for this exhibit! The prices will range from $875-$960 with not a red cent going to the museum. I know, I know, I know… we’ll be there FOR SURE!

Anyway, this is very un-museumish to do something so downright commercial… But apparently, that’s the whole point! The guy who has organized this entire exhibit is Paul Schimmel. He seems to really “get” Takashi Murakami!

With the intention of emphasizing Murakami’s “Superflat” ideas- the highly commercial nature of art in it’s high and low forms- Schimmel decided to allow LV to open up shop. His rational is that providing people the opportunity to actually buy bags in the middle of the otherwise fairly non-commercial, sterile and unattainable environment of the museum just smacked of Superflat!

Here’s a cool interview with Murakami if you’re interested in more about his philosophy & art:

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