Long before designer collaborations were the norm, Louis Vuitton's then-creative director Marc Jacobs teamed up with Takashi Murakami to debut a line of handbags that would go down in fashion history.

The 63-year-old Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the oldest son of a taxi driver and a homemaker, grew up in a one-room ...

Louis Vuitton is now marking that tipping point in its history by re-releasing both the original Jacobs-approved bags and a whole new slew of Murakami-fied wares, including belts, sneakers ...

The Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami collaboration was first revealed in 2003 when then-creative director Marc Jacobs tapped artist ... was featured on a slew of handbags from the French house ...

Up there in the pantheon of fashion greats, artist Takashi Murakami’s painterly collaborations with Louis Vuitton – debuted for spring/summer 2003, when Marc Jacobs was at the helm ... featuring bags ...

From his first whimsical sketches, Marc Jacobs’s pencil has intuitively ... New Yorker to jazz up the then-143-year-old house of Louis Vuitton. He gambled Vuitton’s fortunes on collaborations ...