So… we were promised a Richard Prince Mancrazy back before it was even released, by a client was on the waitlist, but didn’t want to tell her favorite SA that she didn’t want it anymore.  (This is apparently a bigger problem than we’d known about a few years ago, as we hear this story quite a bit…) but I digress.

Well, we thought that this would be the perfect bag for the Queen of all Media, and our LA neighbor Perez Hilton.  So we actually emailed him and he totally wanted it.  Yada, yada, yada… his cute little mom came by the office and picked it up… but we never heard from him again, other than his email that said,

It is AMAZING!!!!!!!!  I’m drooling over it.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Along with this sweet and thoughtful card,

So I’d thought about it quite a bit- and wondered if he was loving it, like I thought he would.   Well, the other day, Perez was on MTV Cribs- and I caught a glimpse of it in his “Pink Palace”- the second room that he’s converted into a big pink closet, and the room from which he tapes his bits on MTV’s TRL.

Can you find it?  Watch the video, and then click the link below to find a screenshot with the answer!!!

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

(more…)

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OK, I just got back from seeing Batman, The Dark Night.  (I know, it only came out on Thursday, but I swear, I was the last person in the world to have seen it.  The girl leaving behind me was gushing that it was “soooo much better the second time around”.)  But, I digress…

Christian Bale did a good job- but, WOW… Heath Ledger was so amazing (as I’d heard).  I mean, my expectations for his performance were sky high- but still, he totally stole the show IMO.

And so there I was, taking a swig of the diet A&W rootbeer that I’d snuck into the theater, when I was faced with the Joker/ nurse scene.  What can I say- it gave me major creepy Richard Prince Nurse vibes.  I mean, seriously, was there an artistic/ make-up designer/ Richard Prince fan on the job?  What do you think?

That’s Richard Prince’s Mancrazy Nurse up top, and his Registered Nurse below.  Here’s another look at the Richard Prince for Louis Vuitton Mancrazy from the JOKES (Joker?) series:

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… in the family (or so it seems from the picture).  But he also carries her purse.

How sweet.  Guy’s got Madge’s Louis Vuitton Richard Prince Pulp Weekender in one hand and her hand in the other.

They’re out for a romantic dinner.  Just the two of them (and 1500 paparazzi trying for a pic after the divorce stories started flying last week.)

(Picture Credit: Pacific Coast News Online)

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Claudia Schiffer looking hot as ever at the dinner hosted by our very own Marc J at the Serpentine Gallery for Richard Prince’s new West London exhibit: “Continuation”. I mean, isn’t that what Super Model’s get paid the big bucks to do? Look hot

What do you think of the Louis Vuitton Afterdark (notice all the pulp fiction paperback covers that pictured around the room behind her…) Monogram Motard Minaudière she decided to carry?

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Love it! Cherie Blair, wife for former prime minister Tony Blair with her Louis Vuitton Monogram Motard Afterdark clutch under her arm.

They were there to celebrate the opening of a Richard Prince exhibit at London’s Serpentine Gallery.

Hmmm, what does she think of Marc Jacob’s necklace?

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(Electric Chair listed at $4500: See the rest of the pics below…)

It seems like there is almost a movement of artists “appropriating” the Louis Vuitton logo in their work.

The thing is that IMO LVMH has two problems with the Darfur shirt:

1. Who the heck wants to be connected to Darfur? LVMH, I’m sure doesn’t want any association with the atrocites going on over there.
2. The bag that she’s pictured on her shirt is a fake: “confusingly similar” to a Louis Vuitton Murakami Multicolore. From the Cease and Desist letter that LVMH send Nadia Plesner:

“Although we applaud your efforts to raise awareness and funds to help Darfur, a most worthy cause, we cannot help noticing that the design of the Simple Living Products includes the reproduction of a bag infringing on Louis Vuitton’s Intellectual Property Rights, in particular the Louis Vuitton Monogram Multicolore Trademark to which it is confusingly similar. We are surprised of such a promotion of a counterfeit bag.”

(Notice the Canal Street bracelets as cuffs)

So- now we’ve got Peter Gronquist’s blinged out, urban warfare gone Canal Street. I can’t imagine that Louis Vuitton would be pleased.

(Chain Saw sold for $3250)

Gronquiest’s exhibition, “The Revolution will be Fabulous- A Weapons of Mass Designer Show” opened Friday night at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. This is I guess a commentary on not only commercialism, but the luxurization of everything. (Think Prada Phone, Chanel or Gucci Bicycle, Louis Vuitton Teddy Bear.)

He didn’t leave anyone out…. you’ll find rifles, artillery shells, granades, glocks, machine guns and for whatever reason- a Gazelle decked out in Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Fendi, Coach, Prada, Versace, Dior, D&G and Burberry.

(listed at $3500)

(Notice the tell-tale striping)

Gronquist used counterfeit scarves to cover these items, as is clear from the close-ups. (Louis Vuitton never made scarves with that striped effect, but they’re common in fakes.)

(Again with the striped scarf- this one sold for $3500)

(Artillery Shell- this one sold for $800)

(Blinged out Multicolore Murakami)

(No comment on the LV antlered Gazelle)

Hmmm, wonder if Louis Vuitton’s gonna send Gronquist the same love letter that they sent Nadia?

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So Louis Vuitton, LVMH sues artist Nadia Plesner for an image she created that includes a bag that is obviously (and potentially confusingly) similar to a Louis Vuitton Multicolore Audra.  She claims that she didn’t use LV’s multicolore monogram exactly, and that it was for charity.  LVMH responds, cease & desist.  And honestly, I feel for LV, because for Pete’s sake, who wants to be associated with the nightmare going on in Darfur.

But, I don’t want to get into the nitty gritty of the suit. Other bloggers are doing that.

I’d like to talk about this subject in light of one of Louis Vuitton’s recent artistic collaborations (a collaboration with an artists who represents a genre and movement that makes this case just a smidge ironic, IMO).

First, we have LV’s work with Richard Price.  Even if you know very little about the art of Richard Prince before he met Marc Jacobs, you probably know that he is one who made his mark as “The Man Who Invented Appropriation“

“What is appropriation?”, you might ask. Well, that’s why I’m here…

The definition of “Appropriation Art” from the ArtLex- art dictionary:

“To take possession of another’s imagery (or sounds), often without permission, reusing it in a context which differs from its original context, most often in order to examine issues concerning originality or to reveal meaning not seen in the original.”

MPR said in it’s article “The Man Who Invented Appropriation”:

“Painter and sculptor Richard Prince is famous in the art world for taking other people’s work and presenting it as his own. Some people see it as theft, others see it as creating a new cultural understanding.”

Richard Prince became famous taking pictures of other people’s pictures. His photographs of old Marlboro Man ads have made him millions (one alone selling in 2005 for $1.2 million).

Prince said of his use of the Marlboro images,

“No one was looking. This was a famous campaign. If you’re going to steal something, you know, you go to the bank.”

You can read more about what the original photographic artist of one of these Marlboro images had to say about Princes’ appropriations in this New York Times article.

Here’s an example of a Richard Prince piece appropriately titled “Rolex”. It’s a “$40,000-$60,000″ picture that he took of an old Rolex ad.

I’m just saying… I’ve always thought it an ironic partnership. Richard Prince, the man who took taking other people’s work into the artistic mainstream and Louis Vuitton, maker of what Elle magazine calls “the most counterfeited bags in fashion history“.

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(Marc & Elodie with the Richard Prince for Louis Vuitton Mancrazy)

 The New York Times has done a special in their Fashion- “Styled to a T” section with our very own Marc Jacobs and fabulous french actress and four month pregnant Élodie Bouchez. Maciek Kobielski took the pictures and I think you’ll agree- they’re amazing!

(Marc & Elodie with the Richard Prince for Louis Vuitton Motard Beforedark)

It’s a great little piece where Marc gives Élodie a “Stork Club” makeover in some amazing Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs bags and clothes. Quite frankly, I love seeing pics of Marc Jacobs “modeling”- he’s always such a ham!

Looks like Marc’s picking out of Richard Prince’s bag of tricks with the RP Nurse Hat…

It’s a great layout. Be sure not to miss it!

(All pictures by Maciek Kobielski for the New York Times)

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Another Richard Prince bag, another opportunity for me to blog about Prince’s Nurse fetish!

We’re excited to have an authentic Richard Prince for Louis Vuitton Mancrazy bag. “Mancrazy”, you might ask yourself. “what a strange name. I wonder how he came up with that one?” Well, that’s why I’m here

OK… again, Richard Prince is into somewhat rauchy (OK… at least to me, “adult” at least) Naughty Nurse pulp fiction. (Read all about it on my last blog on the subject.)

So in 1963, Peggy Gaddis came out with the book, “Man-Crazy Nurse”. Peggy also wrote under the name Peggy Dern. I haven’t found the paperback that inspired the pose of the nurse on RP’s versions. (If you find it, please let me know!)

Richard Prince was obviously inspired by this one in particular, because he painted three versions of it…

(Richard Prince’s Man-Crazy Nurse #1)

(Richard Prince’s Man-Crazy Nurse #2)

(Richard Prince’s Man-Crazy Nurse #3)

I think he got better with each version.

He obviously, also named the fab Limited Edition Louis Vuitton Mancrazy pictured above after this book. I love, love, love how the colors in his paintings- warm reds and oranges, translate on the bag. But does this also work on the arm?

Yikes, Toni Damli Aaberge… simmer down, girl! You’re looking too hot to handle! I totally LOVE this look and the Mancrazy makes it!

What do you think?

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You know, the S/S 2008 Richard Prince for Louis Vuitton line? It’s called “Big City After Dark”… and again- we get a glimpse into Richard Prince’s somewhat odd life and collections.

So I blogged about Richard Prince’s borderline fetish with nurses and his love of “nurse fiction”.

Well, the “after dark” idea came from another of his adult pulp fiction collections. Read this interesting question in an interview from Dejour Magazine and Richard Prince’s answer.

“I read that your inspirations for the designs came from “Louis Vuitton After Dark”. What does that mean, and how did you come to that direction?

The idea of After Dark came from a series of paperback books I’d been collecting. There’s this whole series that highlight different cities in the world and talk about what you can do in those cities after dark… I would describe these books as “adult”.

Here’s the Louis Vuitton Monogram Motard After Dark:

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