Louis Vuitton and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami are collaborating on a new high-fashion pop-up in the Big Apple. Louis Vuitton and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami are getting back together – and the fashion house is celebrating with a dazzling new modular pop-up in downtown NYC.

Fashion brand Louis Vuitton and artist Takashi Murakami have created a New York City pop-up store with multiple colour-blocked rooms and furniture with rounded edges to showcase a new phase of their collaboration.

Louis Vuitton’s 2003 boundary-breaking collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will go down in history as one of the most wanted artistic collaborations of our time.

Below, here’s what you need to know this month, from Louis Vuitton’s blast-from-the-past collaboration with Takashi Murakami to Saint Laurent’s new store opening in Miami. Why: To celebrate the 20-year collaboration between Louis Vuitton and renowned artist Takashi Murakami,

Original Story (December 26, 2024): The internet has caught wind of a new campaign for the upcoming Louis Vuitton x Murakami re-edition collection. It seems that global phenom Zendaya has been enlisted to star in the new campaign for the house, first appearing on Reddit and TikTok.

You couldn't escape Louis Vuitton's multicolored logo in the aughts. Paris, Jessica, and Nicole—the decades’ most emblematic mononyms—all wore the brand's colorful Speedy and Pochette handbags like arm candy in widely circulated paparazzi shots.

Takashi Murakami has the kind of childlike energy that only comes with age and wisdom. One part mad genius, another part curious kid, the prolific artist is one of the biggest names in his field. And—with his hotly anticipated collaboration with Louis Vuitton hitting stores in January—one of the biggest names in fashion.

The ad campaign starring Zendaya debuted in December, and now a pop-up shop is open through Jan. 31, selling re-editions of the handbags every star carried in the aughts.