Richard Prince / Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs

Richard Prince: Continuation. The Art Newspaper. 06.20.08.
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"The show, his first in a major public UK institution, is in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, and curated by Richard Prince with the Serpentine Gallery, and follows his recent “Spiritual America” show the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York."

Marc Jacobs / Andy Warhol

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Marc Jacobs. By Glenn O'Brien. Interview. June / July 2008. 

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"His collaborations with Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, and Richard Prince have shaken things up in both the fashion and art worlds. Not to mention advertising that looks like art and boutiques that feel like clubs. Andy Warhol used to talk about the best art being business art. And it would be hard to find someone who has done more to apply to an artist's thinking of running a creative big business than Marc Jacobs." (Glenn O'Brien)

"It's not my fault! I just have interests outside the superficial world of fashion" (Marc Jacobs)

"I started to thinking in romantic terms, and I always thought back to the time of Schiaparelli and Chanel and Cocteau, when all these creative people seemed to be doing things together. They where influenced by Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali, and fashion and art had a chance, you know?" (Marc Jacobs)

"And what I wanted to do, in the same way as Serge [Gainsbourg] had done, was deface it. The way that Duchamp had done with L.H.O.O.Q., by putting this moustache on [the Mona Lisa] and making it something hipper, a little bit anarchic, and just cooler". 

"Takashi was so pleased with what we had done that he then had a show at Marianne Boesky Gallery where he showed his paintings, which were inspired by the work that we had done together. He had an actual art show of work that he had done after seeing the fashion show". 

"Whether you like it or not, there's a validity to it. For all the critics who made fun of the installation of a Vuitton shop within Takashi's MOCA exhibition...I saw it like Martin Kippenberger's subway grate, you know? It Challenged this sort of categorizing. Like, what is teh art here? Is it what's on the bag? Is it the action of buying the bag - that's the art? Is it watching the people buying the art? Because it's installed in an exhibition in a museum, it it some kind of conceptual performance piece? It operates on so many levels that it's hard to categorize." (Marc Jacobs)

Art Basel

Art sales: big spenders dispel gloom. By Colin Gleadell. Telegraph.co.uk. 06.10.08.
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"The issue this year was whether the dealers would shrug off the effects of the impending recession as successfully as the auction rooms appear to have done, and the early signs were that, in spite of the weakness of the dollar, the Art Basel magic was still at work."

"The Gagosian Gallery made 10 sales on day one, including a painting by Richard Prince for $2 million. Victoria Miro sold six paintings and sculptures by the eccentric Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama for between $250,000 and $500,000 each, as well as Crash, Boom, Bang, a six-figure sculpture satirising the state of the art market by Elmgreen and Dragsett, in which several boxes containing lookalike works by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst had been precariously stacked."

Louis Vuitton / RIchard Prince

Arm Candy Alert! The Daily. 05.27.08.
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"The French fashion and accessories house, which tapped Richard Prince to design a collection of handbags for spring, is offering a limited-edition style to celebrate the artist's first major UK solo exhibition from June 26 to September 7, entitled "Continuation," at the Serpentine Gallery."

"Only 50 of the ostrich and canvas Jamais bags are available, each numbered and signed by the artist. They will be sold exclusively at Vuitton's Sloane Street store in London during Prince's solo show. Priced at 9,000 pounds, or about $17,800, a portion of proceeds from the Jamais bags will benefit the Serpentine."

Louis Vuitton sales don't suffer in downturn

Louis Vuitton sales don't suffer in downturn. San Fransisco Chronicla.By Al Saracevic, Suzanne Herel, Victoria Colliver, Ilana DeBare and Steve Corder.05.25.08.
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"This is a very relevant question today. If you look at what's been disclosed over the last several months by the high-end department stores, and you see their results, there are some challenges clearly in the luxury industry. Some areas in the U.S. seem to be a little bit more challenging than others. But with respect to Vuitton, so far this year has been in double-digit growth. We're continuing with our investment plans as we have laid them out last year. We're not stopping." (Daniel Lalonde, President and Chief Executive Officer of Louis Vuitton North America)

"I'd point out three in particular. We've had a very successful collaboration with (American artist) Richard Prince. These bags are still in our stores. They go from about $2,000 to $5,000. It's a one-shot, meaning it will come in the network, we'll sell them all and it goes away." (Daniel Lalonde, President and Chief Executive Officer of Louis Vuitton North America)

"There's another one in that same vein that is a collaboration with (Japanese artist) Takashi Murakami. Marc Jacobs and Takashi designed a pattern for Vuitton which is based on the monogram, but it's very unique and it's called Monogramoflage. This is not in the stores yet. (It will be available June 15.)" (Daniel Lalonde, President and Chief Executive Officer of Louis Vuitton North America)

Louis Vuitton / RIchard Prince - Part 3

Louis Vuitton S/S 2008. 

Richard Prince

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Richard Prince. By Chiara Leoni. Muse. Spring 2008. 

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"Prince doesn't diagnose decadence. He swims in it." (The New Yorker)

"What is humor?" (Chiara Leoni)

"It is a way to survive." (Richard Prince)

Big Fun

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Big Fun. Miles Socha. W. May 2008. 

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"Everything these days has to occur in a bigger way in order to get people's attention: The volume on everything has to be turned up." (Marc Jacobs)

"And Boucheron inveiled its latest high-jewelry creations during the January couture amid contemporary artworks by Damien Hirst, Richard Prince and others on loan from billionaire Francois Pinault, who controls Boucheron parent company Gucci Group." (Miles Socha)

:In February an otherworldy pavilion designed by notes architect Zaha Hadid called Mobile Art, which houses artworks inspired by Chanel's iconic quilted bags, landed in a parking garage in Hong Kong. Like a UFO, it's next off to Tokyo, them Mew York and other worlds capitals. 'To find a gallery in each city [for the exhibition], that's boring', says Lagerfeld. Chiquet declines to say how much the project cost, but emphasizes, 'Chanel will continue to invest appropriately in ideas that intrigue, surprise and amuse our customers...[It] reinforces its myth - surprising, and provoking the public.'" (Miles Socha)

Uncensored

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Uncensored. By Carlol Vogel. Vogue Hommes International. S/S 2008.

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Tobias Meyer: 'Among collector's, there's no doubt that eroticism in art implies beauty as well as desire. Take the work of Richard Prince: why are his Nurse paintings so expensive, not his car hoods?' he queries, referring to the artist's images of naughty nurses taken from pulp romance novels, as opposed to Prince's more sterile sculptures of car bonnets. 'The Nurses are bought for their exoticism. People want to possess them because they are about desire. The car hoods are not. It's all about fantasy...'"

"'We are in a very voyeuristic society today, the Internet has created a generation of voyeurs,' says Tobias Meyer. 'Look what Tom Ford did with his new perfume, with regard to the campaign [shot by Terry Richardson]for men's perfume, where the bottle is strategically placed, in one ad between a woman's breasts and, in another, between her thighs."

Louis Vuitton / Marc Jacobs / RIchard Prince

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Risky Business. Photographed by Steven Klein. Vogue. May 2008. 

LVMH Sales Rise 12%

LVMH Sales Rise 12%. Miles Socha. WWD. 04.6.08. 

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"It also noted leather goods by Marc Jacobs in collaboration with Richard Prince sparked 'remarkable enthusiasm' from its clients..."

Louis Vuitton / RIchard Prince

Louis Vuitton S/S 2008. 

Is the art world still in fashion?

"Is the art world still fashion?". Vanessa Friedman. Financial Times. 03.15.08.

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"Now, on the surface, this might not strike a layperson as strange. Aren't artists all about their art? And aren't fashion people supposed to look good? Well, yes, but when Ms Lambert started her list back in 1940 there had been a conscious decision to exclude fashion people due to the fact that they have a clear advantage over others thanks to their levels of access and experience. This is doubly true when it comes to models, who not only have access and experience but youth and the genetic lottery on their side, and whose professional success is predicated on their ability to wear anything and make it look fabulous. Yet suddenly an exception had been made, and the top three best-dressed women (Agyness Deyn, Kate Moss, and Natalia Vodianova) were - yes - models, and they squished those painters and photographers and performance artists right out of the picture.

Surprising, really, when you consider that, ever since the millennium, fashion has been enjoying a love affair with the art world not seen since Elsa Schiaparelli got up close and personal with the surrealists. At Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs has made a quasi-fetish out of collaborating with artists such as Takashi Murakami, Stephen Sprouse and Richard Prince; fashion brands vie to underwrite the big art parties of the year, such as the Serpentine's Summer gala; and artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Tracey Emin are routinely photographed in the latest Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney (who made Tatler's BDL), and Vivienne Westwood. Art events such as Frieze and the Venice Biennale have turned into the fifth stops on the annual ready-to-wear calendar and, this season, the romance has extended to the clothes, with Dolce & Gabbana offering floral hand-painted confections (pictured), Chloé splashing Rothko-like swathes of paint on to chiffon, and Prada going all art nouveau and swirly."

"As for the art world, forensic evidence indicates it is still in fashion. Dries van Noten showed a collection for next season replete with spin, splash, and pointillist prints, while a mere three days after the Paris shows drew to a close in London, Tod's sponsored the Whitechapel gallery's annual Art Plus Film fundraiser, complete with invitation by designer Henry Holland, customised Tod's D-Bag by artist Jim Lambie (who is represented by Sadie Coles, who is herself often in magazines such as Vogue and Tatler), and a much-publicised star appearance by ... Agyness Deyn. Who wore plaid, if anyone wants to know."

Richard Prince "The Girls of Battlestar Galactica"

"The Girls of Battlestar Galactica". Richard Prince. Interview. May 2008. 

Louis Vuitton / Richard Prince

Louis Vuitton. S/S 2008. 

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Louis Vuitton // Richard Prince

Louis Vuitton // Richard Prince. Text by Glenn O'Brien. Purple Fashion S/S 2008. 

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"The collision between fashion and art has never been so direct". 

"I this collaboration the end of an era or the beginning of a closer collaboration between artist and designer?"

"I can feel the dogs nipping at my feet. Backlash is lashing?" (Richard Prince). 

"It takes guts to be a real artist. Given the current state of culture almost anything worth doing is going to divide people along factional lines, and inspire pockets of venomous, virulent hatred". 

"But the world has become so enormously small since it networked itself up". 

"The zeitgeist is fraught with paranoia that as the successful artist seeks to feed the insatiable maw of the international, cannibalistic television eye, he must navigate with trepidation, or with the naive and elastic steps of a fool". 

"Nowadays artists must be daring or oblivious. Or both. The art world punishes all those who offend. Not only will artists who make good work be hated by the philistines, they will also eventually be hated by the world that nurtured them, including the speculator collectors whose unrealistic expectations of profit are even slightly unfulfilled - and also hated, of course, by their snarky, armed and dangerous peers. There are a lot of gunslingers in this town". 

"Who says that art starts and stops anyway? The art world isn't Chechnya or Botswana. Its borders are negotiable - fictionable even". 

"Art is art. Fashion is fashion. Art will never be fashion. Fashion will never be art. But that doesn't mean that they can't fuck. Or fight. Or both! Who wouldn't pay to watch that?   

"Maybe what was wrong with painting in the first place was that girls couldn't carry it around with them. Maybe what was wrong with fashion in the first place was that it wasn't quite confusing and alienating enough. I know this collaboration is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It really couldn't be duplicated or repeated. But medical science makes advances in longevity everyday. Besides, something happened here. I smell smoke".