Yayoi Kusama: Connecting the dots on her love affair with fashion

After the legendary artist’s passing at 97, we trace her influence on the fashion industry via illegal orgies, Louis Vuitton handbags and an ill-fated clothing line

Yayoi Kusama: Connecting the dots on her love affair with fashion
Yayoi Kusama

This piece was originally published on March 22, 2021.

Yayoi Kusama is 92 years old and wants to self-obliterate. Be it through endless spirals of her trademark polka dots, the kaleidoscopic expanses of her infinity rooms, or the globular sculptures created to swallow entire spaces, it has been Kusama’s lifelong goal to negate herself into the environment and in doing so, reach total and utter oblivion. 

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