PARIS-First, a little background, or history lesson, if you will, Tokyo, Paris-inspired collection for Louis Vuitton Kim Jones:
'Japonisme' is a French word used to describe the influence of Japanese art of ukiyo-e (wood block prints, exemplified by the work of artist Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai during the Meiji era) to the Impressionist painters in the year 1870 and then Art Nouveau and Cubist artists including Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrac and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Japonisme was not an attempt to copy the style of Japanese art by artists of France and Europe are also not any merger integration between East and West. Instead, it is about Western artists use common essential element in Japanese art, especially the emphasis on secular subjects in their own work, which emphasizes See 'everydayness.': Portrait of Vincent van Gogh Père Tanguy or Camille Monet on a Garden Bench by Claude Monet. Slim fit suit is beatiful.
