Occupy Deluxe Tentacles at Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton currently has an awesomely weird Yayoi Kusama "Tentacles and Tongues" display its stores, so Heather and I made an "Occupy Deluxe Tentacles" mask, then set off on a cheeky jape. The folks at the mall were good sports and didn't get in the way of the silliness.

I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out!

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Hahahaha!!! That’s brilliant, Pike and Mrs Pike!!! So impish!
IndexMe

It looks like he’s having fun. But.. well I hate to sound like a hater but the disturbing/exciting part of the design is Yayoi Kusama’s dots and tentacles, none of which are actually on the mask which looks like bruised meat. Okay I sound like a hater.. sorry. The most disturbing part is the lifelike figurine of Kusama in the window on Omotesando actually, so I guess I’m very glad his mask does not have orange hair or dark glasses.
http://therocknologist.com/2012/09/10/yayoi-kusama-louis-vuitton-colloboration-omotesando-store/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/furdis/7695933510/
- Rich Keller
  
  I had wondered if this was her work. I couldn’t remember her name, though.
  I found the gallery at the Louis Vuitton website. Navigating it is like a combination of net diving as Radical Edward in Cowboy Bebop and playing the Flash game Boomshine.
  
  http://www.louisvuittonkusama.com/en_GB/visions/gallery
  - blueelm
    
    I was about to say that I thought I read that Kusama was working with LV here, but after a quick search it doesn’t appear to be an article here. Wonder where I read it then? Anyway, I can’t stand the logo stuff but the artist driven pieces are really wonderful.
    - Rich Keller
      
      I’m happy for her having found a patron with such deep pockets.
    - Rich Keller
      
      I’m happy for her having found a patron with such deep pockets.
Samuel Sherman

I don’t understand your intention here. Occupying Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama?
- cellocgw
  
  “Being John Tentacleovitch”?
blueelm

Actually I find the statement of a LV (knockoff) occupy mask really funny and clever.

This could be a series: Prada, Gucci,D&G, etc…
Robert Cruickshank

Occupy? Shouldn’t it be occupodes?
- mb81
  
  Octopy?
David Pescovitz

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(Nice work, pal.)
haineux

I think part of the jape is the LV is exceptionally touchy about people using their trademarks in ANY way at all — sue first, ask questions later, but I bet the store manager was savvy enough to think, “If I ignore them, maybe they’ll go away.”

Also: cute mutants doing mutant things are cute.
Halloween_Jack

I too am surprised that they were so sanguine about you using the pattern.
- http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
  
  It’s high-class retail and it would be beneath them to make a fuss, perhaps? Not their bailiwick to care
  - elix
    
    Could it be that someone at LV understands the Streisand Effect?
http://twitter.com/sinkingship3 sinkingship3

For shame, harassing the fair and financially solvent conservatives of Ross Park Mall. And so soon after Uncle Mittens’ little setback. You’re terrible, Muriel.
That_Anonymous_Coward

Occupy R’lyeh