Louis Vuitton × Yayoi Kusama LV Trainer Sneakers, White Leather with Yellow Infinity Dots, Size 10
Louis Vuitton × Yayoi Kusama LV Trainer Sneakers, White Leather with Yellow Infinity Dots, Size 10
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Condition report
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- Good
- Honest Wear
- As Found
Yellow Dots, Court Lines
The Trainer is the best known sneaker of the house, designed under Virgil Abloh. Kusama's yellow, the colour of her first pumpkins, is laid over it without changing its shape. The result is a familiar shoe made plainly hers.
Best for: Collectors who wear the Kusama collaboration
Condition notes
Graded S by the specialist who holds it: only slight traces of wear.
Uppers show some loss of shape, rubbing, soiling and creasing; outsoles show rubbing and soiling.
Soiling inside, including a mark on one insole, and an odour of wear; the dust bag is soiled.
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The LV Trainer from the Louis Vuitton × Yayoi Kusama collaboration, in white grained leather with yellow Infinity Dots. Size 10 on the house scale, lightly worn, with a dust bag.
The Piece
The Trainer takes its lines from vintage basketball shoes: a low padded collar, layered side panels and a thick cupsole. Yellow dots of graded size cross the white overlays, with solid yellow at the heel tab, tongue patch and outsole.
The tongue carries LV initials in white on a yellow rubber patch, and a Monogram flower is moulded into the side of the sole. The heel is signed, the insole is printed Louis Vuitton, made in Italy, and the lining is stamped with the code FD1222.
Details
- Maison: Louis Vuitton
- Collaboration: Yayoi Kusama
- Model: LV Trainer
- Size: 10 (house scale)
- Outsole length: 32 cm (12.6 in)
- Outsole width: 11 cm (4.3 in)
- Sole height: 3.5 cm (1.4 in)
- Material: Leather upper, rubber sole
- Colour: White and yellow
- Code: FD1222
- Included: Dust bag
Condition
- Graded S by the specialist who holds it: only slight traces of wear.
- Uppers show some loss of shape, rubbing, soiling and creasing; outsoles show rubbing and soiling.
- Soiling inside, including a mark on one insole, and an odour of wear; the dust bag is soiled.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade A (light signs of use) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Offered as an authentic Louis Vuitton piece from the Yayoi Kusama collaboration, with its stamped lining and printed insole shown in the photographs. The Desk has not handled it and relies on the description and images supplied. Wipe leather with a soft damp cloth and store with shoe trees away from heat.
Delivery from Japan
Packed by hand in Japan with protection suited to the piece. Shipping is quoted and agreed with you before purchase, weighing EMS, then FedEx, then air cargo, all insured and tracked. Duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
Japanese shoe sizes are given in centimetres of foot length, checked here by hand, and makers differ by half a size or more. Compare with a pair you already wear from the same maker and allow a little margin, the quiet safeguard on a final sale. Our shoe size conversion chart sets Japan beside US, UK, EU and Korean sizes, and for anything it leaves open the curator team replies within one Tokyo business day.
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