The show, with its $960 handbags and $695 agendas for sale, created a flap even before its opening on Oct. 29. Art-world purists charge that it has eroded the line between culture and commerce. "It has turned the museum into a sort of upscale Macy's," the art critic Dave Hickey chided in an interview.
The first deluxe boutique to be integrated in a formal exhibition, the Murakami-Vuitton store is "a terrific example of not just the artist embracing commercial success but proactively going after it," said Elizabeth Currid, the author of "The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City". In this kind of venture, everyone profits, Ms. Currid said. "You are creating a new kind of product, one that expands the economic horizons of all the parties involved."
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Who don't love panda and of course LV. Takashi Murakami stikes again in full force. After creating the Monogram Cerises line along with Marc Jacobs, his creative talent gave birth to the new Monogram Panda line of bags and accessories. Don't be fooled, this series is not new. Murakami released limited editions of monogram bags with Pandas and other characters a few years ago. However, the limited eds were only available in Japan. The line then included a variety of bags featuring the Panda, including the round coin pouch, agenda, billfold, the vavin and others.
