Louis Vuitton × Yayoi Kusama Varsity Jacket, Red Body, Cream Sleeves, Blue Flower Motif on the Back, Size 48, Sample Piece

A varsity jacket from the Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama collaboration, in tomato red with cream sleeves, a blue flower dotted in white across the whole of the back. Size 48, offered as a sample piece, with the woven collaboration label photographed inside.

The Piece

Yayoi Kusama is among the most recognised living Japanese artists, known for dots, infinity and an obsessive, joyful repetition of pattern. Louis Vuitton has worked with her on more than one occasion, and this jacket shows what happens when that vocabulary is set onto one of the most American of garments. Across the back, a single flower unfolds in pale and mid blue, its petals and heart worked with a fine pattern of white dots; a second, smaller flower sits at the left of the chest, beside the house signature in script.

The body is a flat, saturated red, framed by cream sleeves with a pebbled grain, cream welt pockets, and ribbing at collar, cuffs and hem in cream with two red stripes. The jacket closes with white snap buttons, and inside is a red lining with the blue collaboration label and a small metal chain at the neck. The effect is graphic and warm, a jacket that reads clearly from across a room and rewards a closer look.

Measured flat: body width 50 cm (19.7 in), length 67 cm (26.4 in), sleeve length from centre back to cuff 92 cm (36.2 in). Every measurement is taken by hand with the piece laid flat, so please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 3 cm (0.5 to 1 in).

Details

• Maker: Louis Vuitton
• Collaboration: Yayoi Kusama
• Style: Varsity jacket with snap closure
• Colour: Red with cream sleeves and a blue flower motif
• Pockets: Two outer pockets and two inner pockets
• Made in: Italy
• Size: 48
• Body width: 50 cm (19.7 in)
• Length: 67 cm (26.4 in)
• Sleeve length: 92 cm (36.2 in), centre back to cuff
• Note: Offered as a sample piece; no composition label is present

Condition

• No soiling or damage is recorded; any marks are inconspicuous.

Condition grade A on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.

Authenticity & Care

The woven Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama label is present and photographed, together with the signature embroidery on the chest and the interior chain at the collar. The jacket carries no composition label, so we recommend that it be entrusted to a specialist cleaner and stored on a broad hanger.

Delivery from Japan

Packed by hand in Tokyo and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything before you buy, and see our published policy.

Every figure above is taken by hand, in centimetres, and Japanese labels often run a size smaller than Western ones. Compare with a piece you already own and allow a little margin, the quiet safeguard on a final sale. Our size conversion guide sets Japanese sizes beside US, UK, EU and Asian ones, and for anything it leaves open the curator team replies within one Tokyo business day.