Excerpted from www.fashionologie.com
The Time 100 List of Most Influential People was released yesterday, and three fashion notables made the cut: Karl Lagerfeld, Carine Roitfeld, and Takashi Murakami. The fun thing about this list is that Time gets other big names to write about the honorees’ sphere of influence, so Marc Jacobs did the honors for Takashi, Hedi Slimane for Carine, and architect Zaha Hadid for Karl.
Marc Jacobs’ piece on Takashi comes across sounding exactly like you would expect Marc to write — daydreamy, and always self-consciously obsessed with the cool:
“When I first saw Takashi Murakami’s work, I smiled and wondered, Where did this explosion come from? Who was responsible for this collision of psychedelia, manga and, well, art? Then I thought, I would love it if the mind that imagined this dizzying world of jellyfish eyes, singing moss, magic mushrooms and morphing creatures would be willing to have a go at the iconic Louis Vuitton monogram.
“Most of all, she has an innate ability to mix street culture and society, always avoiding the caricatures that can define both worlds and always recognizing the mix of both worlds as the only catalyst of energy and creativity.”
