Sukiyaki: The Blossoms of Takashi Murakami

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Wow, I just read this thread and can only say the only thing less appealing to me than anything from LV, is LV with cartoons painted on the cheap leather that LV brands as it's own.

Does everybody understand that the Vuitton family made it's bones collaborating with the Vichy French and Nazi Germany during the second world war?

Is there any greater example of ostentatious materialism that this company proudly pulls out of it's trousers every day?

You hit it right on the head. Most, but certainly not all, it's products are about ostentatious materialism, and a fine luxury goods corporation they would be if it wasn't. The cartoons may be kinda kitschy but the world has proven it's love for kawai in all its forms. Even on a $5,000 bag. I don't understand it or pretend to; I just present it and let the people decide. I was as objective as I could be, I think.

The Vuitton family's involvement with both the Vichy and, indirectly, the Nazis stems from them being a major, high-profile company in Paris at that time. There wasn't much choice given to them or any companies within France at that time to save their legacies; Vuitton had been a over century old at that point and an important French national and international icon. It was choose a group, choose now or lose everything. I can understand them not wanting everything they'd worked so hard to achieve.

I'm mishpucah and I personally absolve them.