Kanye just posted this little piece of art by Meryl Smith- a doggie bag, appropriated with the LV monogram... and I've gotta say it. Regardless of the major yuck factor for this piece in particular, I'm so over the whole concept.
I mean, I get it. Artists who want to make a statement "borrow" the LV marks because they are powerful and get noticed. But it's just lazy. It's been done to death. (Think Nadia Plesner's Darfur shirt, Wim Delvoye's LV tatoo'd pigs, Peter Gronquist's monogram Electric Chair (and chainsaw, glocks, artillary shells & Gazelle? of all things- etc. etc).
And I don't know about you... but I think Louis Vuitton/ Marc Jacobs gets this. So much so that maybe that's part of the reason they brought Richard Prince on board. You know, Richard Prince... "the Man who invented Appropriation".
What do you think?
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Ew. It’s ugly and creepy.
Frightening, huh?
Was that suppose to be some type of statement??? that is just plain nasty..
Wow, sick. Gave me the willies!
I’m guessing that revulsion is the response she was looking for? If so- she’s right on.
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