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(Card Holder from Brooklyn Ball)

… that I’ve seen. I mean, it isn’t Canvas. But interesting, none the less.

(FYI:  I’ve gotten a few emails on this- it’s not for sale, it was a “freebie” at the Murakami Brooklyn Museum Ball.  It has “Brooklyn Museum 2008″ embossed on the bottom.  Want one?  Check eBay )

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Hmmm, so I (like you) have been dying to know what if any limited edition pieces will be sold at the @Murakami exhibit Louis Vuitton store in Brooklyn. The MOCA LE pieces were a huge hit- so it’s made me super curious.

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Emily and Ben (my sister and brother-in-law) are hopefully going to get me some pictures (depending on how sneaky they can be)… but it looks like at least we’re going to be able to pick up Limited Edition Multicolore Marilyn bags- black and white, with gold instead of Vachetta leather trim.  We’re getting conflicting info as to the price, but it looks to be between $1500-$1550.

The Multicolore Marilyn is the bag featured in 33 colors of exotic skins packed and displayed in an amazing matching white Louis Vuitton Multicolore Trunk especially designed to house them- it was at MOCA and will be at the Brooklyn Museum as well.

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The New York Times reported about the Louis Vuitton store at @Murakami… talked about having the Monogramouflage canvases for sale, Multicolore items for sale and (this caught my eye):

“Other leather goods designed for the show will be for sale too.”

Murakami also promised, “I will be introducing new characters”- but whether these will be Louis Vuitton items with Murakami characters or just one of the many Murakami items available… I just don’t know.

I love this parting line from the NYT article about the MOCA Louis Vuitton store:

“The Los Angeles show attracted young people who had never been to the museum. “Many of the kids were first-time visitors, who came because they heard about the show through various kinds of cross-branding,” Mr. Schimmel said. “Names like Louis Vuitton, Kanye West and eBay.”

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Alright, alright… so there were some cheap seats for a measly $1000… but it’s being reported that some tickets went up to $75,000 a piece! Wowzers, that Kanye must put on one heck of a show!

If anyone went, I’d love to see some pics… sarah@fashionphile.com

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(picture via WWD)

Does Louis Vuitton’s Monogramouflage look familiar? My first thought upon seeing it was “Bape”! But really, this pop camo really has just been done before- I mean, think Tomoaki “Nigo” Nagao’s Bape Camo (A Bathing Ape), or Pharell William’s Billionaire Boy’s Club camo. Take a look:

(Bathing Ape Camo)

(BBC Camo)

(Murakami Monogramouflage)

I mean, are you following me?

Don’t get me wrong. Both Bape and BBC are great companies. And clearly, the founders of both are friends and contemporaries with Murakami- so perhaps this influenced him?

(Murakami, BBC’s Williams & Bape’s Nigo from the BBC Blog on the Murakami MOCA Preview Show)

Don’t get me wrong… as I blogged about a couple weeks ago- Murakami has a history in Camo.  And I guess, everyone else is doing camo- so why not! What do you think?

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Here it is. Looks like there will be three different Monos… a dark, an army green and a tan with light LV’s. Read all about it on WWD. What do you think?

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From the Brooklyn Museum of Art press release:

“A selection of Monogram Multicolor bags and small leather goods will be available for sale for the duration of the © MURAKAMI exhibition. Styles for sale include the Alma, Speedy, Ursula, Beverly, Rita, Eugénie, and Alexandra. Just as the MOCA store presented a number of limited-edition Monogram canvasses revisited by Takashi Murakami, the Brooklyn store will also offer a new version of these “Editioned Canvasses,” signed by the artist and sold as exclusive art products. The new version, called Monogramouflage, is an exciting new pattern created by Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton, and gives viewers a glimpse of a bright new product line that will be launched at the Brooklyn Museum Louis Vuitton store on June 1 before being sold in selected Louis Vuitton stores worldwide. As the store may generate revenues, part of them will be donated to the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation.”

Oh, so interesting.  So will the Louis Vuitton multicolore be just standard issue, or limited edition Murakami Brooklyn Museum specials?  We’ll have to see.

There’s a whole bunch of Murakami stuff on the Brooklyn Museum website- available now, but no Louis Vuitton.

Monogramouflage will actually be officially unveiled at Louis Vuitton’s “Brooklyn Ball” launch party on April 3!

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(Takashi Murakami’s DOB Camouflage 2000)

Who knows what the heck Murakami’s new Monogram Camouflage or Monogramouflage or Monouflage or Monoflage (I’ve seen it spelled all three ways!) is going to look like. The picture above is a Murakami Camo- but his Louis Vuitton collaboration will be a camo line in Monogram- so we’ll just have to see. All we can be sure of right now is that it’s going to be hot!

Here’s what you need to know:

1. The @Murakami Exhibit that I’ve blogged about ad nauseum will open to the public at the Brooklyn Museum on April 5
2. Louis Vuitton will again “open shop” there.
3. There will be multicolor monogram handbags and small leather goods
4. There will be limited edition art canvasses also for sale that feature the new “Monogramouflage” design
5. At the museum, they will be previewing this new Louis Vuitton collection the night of the April 3 Gala
6. Murakami also promised, “I will be introducing new characters”
7. The line will then launch at the Brooklyn store beginning June 1
8. This line will be sold at a select number of Louis Vuitton boutiques worldwide starting June 15
9. At the Gala, in addition to a performance by Kanye West, there will be a special performance in an effort to raise awareness of the international problem of counterfeits…

Very interesting indeed and wouldn’t miss it!

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