Luxury brands are becoming ever-competitive to gain younger customers
Louis Vuitton has launched an extensive global collaboration with 93-year-old Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生), rolling out a wide range of products including clothing, leather goods, accessories, and even perfumes. This partnership isn’t just a one-off capsule—it’s a fully immersive, multi-market campaign that highlights Kusama’s iconic polka-dot motifs across physical retail, digital experiences, and collectible design objects. As part of its global rollout, Louis Vuitton invested heavily in campaign visuals, pop-up exhibitions, and digital activations, reinforcing the brand’s position at the intersection of high fashion, contemporary art, and experiential marketing.
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Millennials present a new set of challenges to the luxury industry as they are expected to make up to 50% of the whole luxury market by 2025. As opposed to simply deriving materials, shapes, and patterns from Yayoi’s artwork, LV’s product was designed based on a deep understanding of her artwork and connotations. To increase audiences’ interaction with Yayoi’s work, LV explores animations and autostereoscopic. The selection of artists and application of technology adhere to LV’s Avant-Garde fashion position;
Marketing methods in this campaign present the feature of diversion: from the ‘traditional’ cross-over collection, online assets, we also observe the application of artistic formats like iconic installation, exhibition with advanced tech, which is a good learning for mkter to rethink the media landscape.
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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 3D anamorphic Billboard in Tokyo I LOUIS VUITTON
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Written by Ika Sun from internship summer bootcamp 2023
13 Jan 2023
