Japanese-style Trip

This summer, Louis Vuitton is taking over the city of Osaka with two spectacular exhibitions, alongside Expo 2025. Until September 17, 2025, the brand is presenting its “Visionary Journeys” exhibition at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, designed by Florence Müller and Shohei Shigematsu from the architecture and urban planning firm OMA. From Kusama to Murakami, the history of iconic trunks dialogues with more than 200 Japanese artifacts, including impressive lantern trunks made of washi, a traditional Japanese paper handmade from natural fibers, which open the exhibition. Also in Osaka, artist Yayoi Kusama is being celebrated by the French brand, with whom she has been collaborating since 2012, in “Yayoi Kusama – Infinity.” On view until January 2026 at the Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka, the exhibition presents the artist’s iconic designs, almost always adorned with Kusama’s signature dots or pumpkins. Visitors can lose themselves in her “infinity rooms,” which reproduce hallucinatory patterns ad infinitum, inviting contemplation.