The convergence of art, architecture, fashion, technology and design is increasingly intrinsic to the fabric of the modern world. Louis Vuitton’s collaborations with artists Richard Prince and Takashi Murakami have been hugely successful and many of the elite fashion houses have commissioned leading architects to design their flagship stores. Frank Gehry for Issey Miyake, Herzog & de Meuron for Prada, SANAA for Dior.
Commerce aside; the defining theme of the noughties is that the boundaries between all creative disciplines have become ever more fluid as the communication age facilitates the open exchange of new ideas. In 2009, art, architecture, fashion and design are increasingly interchangeable. Nowhere are the effects of this open exchange of ideas more visible than in the commerce driven world of high-fashion.
Louis Vuitton has an especially rich association with the world of art, especially since the arrival of Marc Jacobs in 1997. As Artistic Director, Jacobs has helped reinvent the Louis Vuitton brand through successful collaborations with artists Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince. These collaborations form part of Louis Vuitton’s A Passion for Creation exhibition, open now in Hong Kong. The exhibition contains a number of different art exhibitions, exploring the iconic brand’s artistic collaborations alongside contemporary collections of art and a showcase of young Hong Kong artists. To give the exhibition a talking point, the façade of the Hong Kong Museum of Art was wrapped with Richard Prince’s After Dark series of artworks. Prince adapted his post-pop, pulp-fiction book covers to create an After Dark tapestry that wraps the exterior façade of the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
The exhibition runs until August 9 at the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
