Marc Jacobs Sheds Light On The Kanye x Louis Vuitton Collaboration

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Before there were the Air Yeezys, there was Kanye's collaboration with then Marc Jacobs-led Louis Vuitton. The high-fashion Jaspers, Dons and Mr. Hudsons released in 2009, but how did the partnership actually come about? Elle interviewed Marc Jacobs on the occasion of receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from Parsons and asked the man himself. It started off as an innocuous phone conversation, where Kanye called Marc up to talk about Takashi Murakami:

Kanye called me on the telephone, because he wanted to talk about Murakami, the artist. He was a huge enthusiast, and he knew I'd worked with Murakami on a Vuitton collaboration [in 2002]. Well, our conversation about Murakami turned into a conversation about many other things, and it lasted for hours. We really got along, and it was a really fascinating conversation. Eventually, we began talking about sneakers, and that's how his partnership with Vuitton happened.

Pretty crazy how a phone conversation turned into a full-blown sneaker collaboration. Especially when the result was the above—imagine that said in a super disappointed and disapproving manner, because the shoes were wack as fuck.

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