Louis Vuitton Cerises/Cherry Collection 2025

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#151
bagsamplified said:
Thank you, I so appreciate this!! :loveeyes:
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To build on this, based on what my Japanese husband has said, cherries are indeed seen as somewhat sexual here. A “cherry boy” is a male virgin, and my husband said that’s kind of the first thing he thought of when he saw Murakami’s cherry design. (If you know Murakami, you’ll know *that* Lonesome Cowboy piece that made him famous… NSFW!!!)

I think adding the smiley face definitely does soften the concept and takes it from sexual to cute though! (Very interesting points here about Murakami’s use of smiley faces in itself though!)

My husband initially did not really want me to carry a Cherry TM bag HAHA but I pointed out that it’s 2025, the 1990 otaku connotation of cherries has mostly died out by now! :D
 
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#152
bagsamplified said:
I really appreciate being able to chat about these things, too. Just got back from Japan and saw parts of Murakami collection and popups, plus random exhibits of his artwork at non LV sites.

For an artist to make art that is a commentary on mass consumption, that is then mass consumed across the world.. love it!! Then with the original inspiration also including those deep cultural references to Otaku culture, nature, trauma, rebirth, and spirituality- i think it's fascinating! Don't know if I'll end up buying anything, but always love checking out the context behind the artists' pieces. Murakami's work is now reminding me of Sun Yitian, with her pop animals that nearly everyone on the forum seemed to disdain last year :lol: but the significance of her work has some striking parallels actually. And Park Seobo too, with his Paper works last year for the Men's Epi range. (I loved the animals, btw!)

Ok enough babble from me, but really happy to hear if there's more insight into all this :smile: I do enjoy the pieces more this way!
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Heh. I come at it from a different direction ... I have little to no knowledge of anime (I'm probably too old), or the associated areas of pop art or pop culture. For me, due to numerous family members, from my Chinese daughter, to two of my close Filipino friends, to my uncle, to a former physics advisor who worked on the Manhattan Project years before walking me down the aisle at my wedding, the direction *I* come from is interest in the events and fallout of WWII. Which is why it always caught my ear that Murakami was commenting on PTSD, forced smiles, and the Nagasaki "locals". We come from entirely different educational/interest directions, and here we are on a purseblog. :biggrin:
 
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osakagurl said:
To build on this, based on what my Japanese husband has said, cherries are seen as somewhat sexual here. A “cherry boy” is a male virgin, and my husband said that’s kind of the first thing he thought of when he saw Murakami’s cherry design. (If you know Murakami, you’ll know *that* Lonesome Cowboy piece that made him famous… NSFW!!!)

I think adding the smiley face definitely does soften the concept and takes it from sexual to cute though!

My husband initially did not really want me to carry a cherry TM bag HAHA but I pointed out that it’s 2025, the 1990 otaku connotation of cherries has mostly died out by now! :biggrin:
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Yeah, I've seen that Lonesome Cowboy. NSFW indeed, :shocked::nuts:. The accompanying female "equivalent" statue too. ;)
 
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momtok said:
Heh. I come at it from a different direction ... I have little to no knowledge of anime (I'm probably too old), or the associated areas of pop art or pop culture. For me, due to numerous family members, from my Chinese daughter, to two of my close Filipino friends, to my uncle, to a former physics advisor who worked on the Manhattan Project years before walking me down the aisle at my wedding, the direction *I* come from is interest in the events and fallout of WWII. Which is why it always caught my ear that Murakami was commenting on PTSD, forced smiles, and the Nagasaki "locals". We come from entirely different educational/interest directions, and here we are on a purseblog. :biggrin:
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I totally get you :) it is a mixed trauma our generations carry.. ok will definitely stop here but appreciate it!
 
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#157
bagsamplified said:
For sure!! I only saw the pics from Mean Girls today. Imagine if Rachel McAdams was part of the campaign!!
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Just want to clarify .... Do you mean that you had not seen the pics from Mean Girls before today? If so, then there's another thing we have in common. Last week, over on the multicolore thread, I had to ask who those people were. :biggrin: Like I said ... I'm too old for that too. I didn't know either. :biggrin:
 
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momtok said:
Just want to clarify .... Do you mean that you had not seen the pics from Mean Girls before today? If so, then there's another thing we have in common. Last week, over on the multicolore thread, I had to ask who those people were. :biggrin: Like I said ... I'm too old for that too. I didn't know either. :biggrin:
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I've seen the movie heaps, just never clocked their bags when I saw them . I'm usually not into pochettes anyway .

Never too old for the movie!! Go watch it, it's quirky 😀💝 and so many Y2K references that are great for comparing with today's fashions, lol! It's also good for seeing Tina Fey's work before 30 Rock
 
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momtok said:
Good question. :smile: I'm genuinely curious if there's a specific answer to the cherry/blossoms significance. I do know about the flowers and what the smiling flowers represent, but was the extension to cherry blossoms and cherries simply coincidental? .......... I guess I just assumed that the cherry blossoms became a natural extension of the "flowers theme", because: 1) well they *are* flowers, and he has such a significant flower theme otherwise, and 2) the cherry blossom time and festivals are such a big celebration in Japan.

And then what do cherry blossoms produce but --- cherries! :smile: I guess I thought his flow was just flowers --> Japan's big flower celebration --> cherry blossoms! --> produce cherries. .........Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, the cherry blossom festivals are considered so quintessentially Japanese .... just like his claimed reason as to why the flowers are smiling in general. ....(Thinking. Maybe that's the answer.)
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I am absolutely fascinated. I had no idea. Had to Google to learn more about this.
 
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resplendent said:
I am absolutely fascinated. I had no idea. Had to Google to learn more about this.
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There are numerous google-able articles about his interview, .... one that I once read talked about how the eyes of the flowers are tiny and "dead", while the smiles are so bright. Think Ptsd. But I just checked and even his wikipedia entry mentions it.
 
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Mapoon said:
Totally agree! The white with cherries really reminds me of the Coach version that just launched recently :lol:
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oh no those coach bags arggh! I'd have to wait for better resolution pics then, as am eying the white cherry pochette metis EW.

As for the brown cherry, the nano alma does look nice with two cherries rather than cherries throughout the piece. An alternative would be the side trunk MM since i've been wanting a regular mono one - price factor.

Not sure about denim + cherry, abit busy, if Aus gets the key cles then i'd go for that else nothing. Knowing Aus, we prob won't get a lot of things.
 
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Logic said:
oh no those coach bags arggh! I'd have to wait for better resolution pics then, as am eying the white cherry pochette metis EW.

As for the brown cherry, the nano alma does look nice with two cherries rather than cherries throughout the piece. An alternative would be the side trunk MM since i've been wanting a regular mono one - price factor.

Not sure about denim + cherry, abit busy, if Aus gets the key cles then i'd go for that else nothing. Knowing Aus, we prob won't get a lot of things.
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So true! Just wait for the better photos..hard to see if the cherries or sakura will look busier on the bags...even the Sakura high res photos are not even posted yet..The side trunk is a good option.. I rekcon maybe the $6-7k mark given the regular is about $5k...

I like the key pouch but you are right..we may miss out again on it just like the MC drop...so not putting too much hopes....maybe another bandeau...but let's see...

Just rewatched Meredith's video discussing this collection and she did mention the key cles so perhaps we are getting that item..depends if we can preorder lol
 
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osakagurl said:
To build on this, based on what my Japanese husband has said, cherries are indeed seen as somewhat sexual here. A “cherry boy” is a male virgin, and my husband said that’s kind of the first thing he thought of when he saw Murakami’s cherry design. (If you know Murakami, you’ll know *that* Lonesome Cowboy piece that made him famous… NSFW!!!)

I think adding the smiley face definitely does soften the concept and takes it from sexual to cute though! (Very interesting points here about Murakami’s use of smiley faces in itself though!)

My husband initially did not really want me to carry a Cherry TM bag HAHA but I pointed out that it’s 2025, the 1990 otaku connotation of cherries has mostly died out by now! :biggrin:
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Is this why he's only doing double cherries this time? The joke being on consumerism is very contemporary artist 😆🍒
 
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benjinito said:
With its irresistible charm and a sly provocativeness, Cherries shows Murakami to be an artist skilled at navigating the realm of the surreal. The traditionally sexual connotations of cherry fruit are undermined by the disarming, candy-coloured smiles of Murakami’s Cherries, offering a joyfully surreal encounter for viewers. In the midst of his deep dive into otaku culture during the mid-1990s, Murakami realised the greater relatable appeal and potential of kawaii, and thus re-oriented his art from confrontation to cuteness. He created a strange, imaginary world of iconic characters including Mr. DOB, Kaikai, Kiki and enchanted mushrooms, eyes, and flowers. He explained in an interview with the New York Times: “I found a system for what is a cute character,” and on a whiteboard at Kaikai Kiki he drew a circle with the top half blank and the bottom half containing two dots for eyes and a smiling mouth. “In the kawaiisystem, this scale is very important” (the artist quoted in Arthur Lubow, ‘The Murakami Method’, The New York Times, 3 April 2005, online).
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TL;DR He thinks the faces are cute :lol:
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Since when do cherries have a sexual connotation. 😅

Edit: should have read further first. 😅 Have to do some reading about that topic! Love that this thread is getting busy, too!
 
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