If you scribble it, they will come.
Louis Vuitton is hoping to entice luxury-cautious shoppers with the DayGlo doodles of the late designer Stephen Sprouse. Again.
Eight years ago, Sprouse’s designs for the French label became lightning in a Speedy bag when Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs enlisted the punk-meets-pop creator as the first guest artist to have his way with the iconic leather goods. Now the weather looks right for a second strike.
Sprouse, who died at age 50 in 2004, was recently the subject of a retrospective at New York’s Deitch Projects, and also a comprehensive new hardcover. “The Stephen Sprouse Book” (Rizzoli, $65) follows him from his early days assisting Halston, through his ’80s zenith sewing onstage looks for Debbie Harry to this decade’s collaborations with Target, Diesel and Knoll.
The Vuitton collection encompasses handbags, wallets, bracelets, shoes, leggings, even a bandanna and sneaker boots — each tagged with Sprouse’s graffiti-style graphics.
