Psychotic Window by Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton


Here are some photos of the windows displayed in September and October 2012 in various cities by shops selling Louis Vuitton products. 

In my humble opinion, these windows are psychotic, packed full of sexual references and plainly pornographic, but they are also interesting to watch.




If the tentacles above and the colourful flowers below are not strong references to the male and female sexual organs, then I do not know what they are.  It also seems the red colour everywhere can be nothing else but blood.



The designer of all these mess was Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese "Pop" artist.

 Some references can be found at these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/index.html
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/YayoiKusama

 The obsession for representing her own image among tentacles and other very easy to decrypt sexual references is found elsewhere in many works by this artist

A short movie of the Louis Vuitton window in Hong Kong, October 2012 is here:
http://youtu.be/fYVTVFN7RG0

and another window in another city is here:
http://youtu.be/OX2Hx1DxGAw




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