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The Artists Fall Collection
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CULTURE MEETS COMMERCE Takashi Murakami and bags for sale at his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
KERI EVILSIZOR trained a covetous eye on the handbags pristinely arrayed on white-lacquered shelves. She was not quite sure what to make of the display, housed in a 1,000-square-foot island of commerce inside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. No matter. She was there to shop.
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FASHION STATEMENTS A Marc Jacobs bag for Louis Vuitton.
Ms. Evilsizor, who had come from San Francisco nominally to see an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, was delighted. Here was a luxury store operated by Louis Vuitton, no less in the midst of a high-tone exhibition space.
She was even able to snare a trophy, a handbag designed by Marc Jacobs, the Vuitton creative director, with the companys monogram and one of Mr. Murakamis raucously colorful cartoon images. Sizing up the haute Bohemian crowd milling about in T-shirts, premium jeans and pricey knee-high boots, she noted, Theres definitely a large percentage of people who are here for the purses.
Visitors were indeed snapping up the limited-edition leather goods, embellished with Mr. Murakamis cartoon hands and Chibi Kinoko mushroom-shaped characters. And most seemed to sense that they were witness to a marriage made in mercantile heaven.
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The Artists Fall Collection
CULTURE MEETS COMMERCE Takashi Murakami and bags for sale at his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
KERI EVILSIZOR trained a covetous eye on the handbags pristinely arrayed on white-lacquered shelves. She was not quite sure what to make of the display, housed in a 1,000-square-foot island of commerce inside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. No matter. She was there to shop.
Skip to next paragraph
FASHION STATEMENTS A Marc Jacobs bag for Louis Vuitton.
Ms. Evilsizor, who had come from San Francisco nominally to see an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, was delighted. Here was a luxury store operated by Louis Vuitton, no less in the midst of a high-tone exhibition space.
She was even able to snare a trophy, a handbag designed by Marc Jacobs, the Vuitton creative director, with the companys monogram and one of Mr. Murakamis raucously colorful cartoon images. Sizing up the haute Bohemian crowd milling about in T-shirts, premium jeans and pricey knee-high boots, she noted, Theres definitely a large percentage of people who are here for the purses.
Visitors were indeed snapping up the limited-edition leather goods, embellished with Mr. Murakamis cartoon hands and Chibi Kinoko mushroom-shaped characters. And most seemed to sense that they were witness to a marriage made in mercantile heaven.
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