Before Kanye West was Yeezus, the masked man in Margiela, he was a kid from Chicago who loved Louis Vuitton backpacks and polos. Sometime in between his transformation, the rapper discovered Takashi Murakami, the famed Japanese artist who helped revive Louis Vuitton with a bright collaboration in the mid-aughts and who eventually created the visual identity for Kanye's 2007 album Graduation.
In a new interview with The New York Times, Murakami recalls meeting West for the first time-and it's a classic Kanye story. Their relationship began with a sculpture that West very much admired.
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'Kanye's record label contacted me and said that he really liked a sculpture of mine-a woman with huge breasts,' Murakami recounted.
'They asked if he could come to see it,' he continued. 'It just so happened that the sculpture had just returned to the studio for repair. I said sure. Kanye came to the studio and stared at the sculpture, completely without words, just silently looking at it. I think he was moved by it, because he took hundreds of pictures with his digital camera.'
Fast forward a near-decade and Kanye now lives with his own kind of living sculpture, Kim Kardashian, so there's that.
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