Reconnecting art, fantasy and luxury.
As part of Art Basel Paris 2025, Louis Vuitton presents the seventh edition of its Artycapucines series, created under the unmistakable imagination of the great Takashi Murakami. Together, they offer a total experience where the boundaries between installation, sculpture and fashion are completely blurred.
On the Balcon d’Honneur of the Grand Palais, the artist displays a monumental installation: a nine-metre-high octopus, whose lights, textures and tentacles transform the space into an immersive setting. Inspired by Chinese lanterns, the cephalopod becomes a metaphor for his own hypnotic, entertaining and, at times, even disturbing universe.
His luminous head displays the iconic Superflat Jellyfish Eyes motif, created in 2001, a symbol of the gaze and childhood fear that the Japanese artist transforms into something kind, almost tender. The Kraken, another of his favourite motifs, reappears here as an ambivalent figure: monster and muse, chaos and colour.
Under his tentacles, eleven Capucines bags reinterpret the House’s savoir-faire through pop aesthetics. From Mr. DOB to Smiling Flowers and Superflat Panda, the Artycapucines VII collection – Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami celebrates the dialogue between contemporary art and artisanal heritage.
The exhibition is structured around three Plush Balls, three-dimensional plush sculptures that the artist has been exploring since the 1990s. Among them, the new Cherry Blossom Plush Ball (2025) pays tribute to the sakura flower, an emblem of ephemeral beauty and rebirth.
The stars of this capsule collection—the Capucines BB Golden Garden, the Capusplit BB, the Capucines Mini Autograph and the Panda Clutch—reaffirm Murakami‘s playful and exquisite vision.
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