Zendaya Fronts Louis Vuittons Reissue of Its Iconic Takashi Murakami Collab [Video]

These days, artist x luxury brand collaborations are dime a dozen, but Louis Vuitton has long led the way, recruiting some of the biggest names in contemporary art to produce creative riffs on brand classics. Back in 2003, the fashion house launched a new partnership with Japanese juggernaut Takashi Murakami, who brought some of his playful zeal to handbags that popped with multi-colored decorative details.

Sure enough, these distinctive accessories flew off the shelves and found themselves on the arms of “It” girls everywhere, including Naomi Campbell, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton. More recently, with the craze for all things Y2K, vintage pieces have been flaunted by models Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner.

Since then, Murakami‘s international celebrity has only grown. By 2007, he had joined the roster at Gagosian and, over the past two decades, has been involved in a fleet of high-profile collabs with the likes of Vans, Virgil Abloh, and Supreme, …