Yayoi Kusama & Louis Vuitton Yayoi Kusama is currently featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art for the exhibit Yayoi Kusama and Fireflies on the Water. To celebrate, Marie Claire has page in the current issue under 101 Ideas: It would drive anyone crazy. For more than six decades, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has splashed canvases, sculptures, and entire rooms in polka dots. Now 83, she’s outfitted her wheelchair in the motif. But the act is less choice than compulsion—one that led to her voluntary institutionalization for the past 35 years. That Marc Jacobs, artistic director and mad genius behind Louis Vuitton, would be drawn to the avant-garde provocateur is no surprise. For fall, Kusama joins ranks with past LV collaborators Stephen Sprouse and Takashi Murakami in putting her stamp on the French maison’s legendary monogram. Each piece is a collector’s item. But for those not ready to splurge, Kusama’s first retrospective lands at New York’s Whitney Museum July 12. —Katie L. Connor “A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can’t stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement… Polka-dots are a way to infinity.” —Yayoi Kusama High-res

Yayoi Kusama & Louis Vuitton

Yayoi Kusama is currently featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art for the exhibit Yayoi Kusama and Fireflies on the Water. To celebrate, Marie Claire has page in the current issue under 101 Ideas:

It would drive anyone crazy. For more than six decades, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has splashed canvases, sculptures, and entire rooms in polka dots. Now 83, she’s outfitted her wheelchair in the motif. But the act is less choice than compulsion—one that led to her voluntary institutionalization for the past 35 years. That Marc Jacobs, artistic director and mad genius behind Louis Vuitton, would be drawn to the avant-garde provocateur is no surprise. For fall, Kusama joins ranks with past LV collaborators Stephen Sprouse and Takashi Murakami in putting her stamp on the French maison’s legendary monogram. Each piece is a collector’s item. But for those not ready to splurge, Kusama’s first retrospective lands at New York’s Whitney Museum July 12. —Katie L. Connor

“A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can’t stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement… Polka-dots are a way to infinity.” —Yayoi Kusama