I'm going to take a page out of Kanye's blog and adopt a hero of the month. During the month of January my hero is Takashi Murakami. Not only has Takashi changed the way we look at pop art but he has also changed the way we look at fashion. For all you ladies Takashi collaborated with Marc Jacobs for the Louis Vuitton Murakami bags. He sees his work as being apart of the "poku" movement, a mix of pop(po) and otaku(ku), the animation and comic driven japenese youth culture. He is famous for Mr. DOB a mickey mouse meets hello kitty character created in 1993. Murakami describes him as "always in a daze and confused, like he was drunk or stoned."
Next time you look at the cover of Kanye West album "Graduation" you will see the work of Takashi Murakami.
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