but it was banality, an exhibition held

 http://totheigh52833.blogspot.com/2020/06/women-in-sport-scrum-half-has-been-part.html and going from penniless to the world

1:1 replica handbags One of the world's most famous artists, Jeff Koons has now turned his hand to designing handbags for Louis Vuitton, putting an avant garde spin on works by the old masters. He talks to The Telegraph about Perfect Quality Louis Vuitton Replica this latest project andhis colourful life.

In early 2015, Jeff Koons took a call from Delphine Arnault, the executive vice president of Louis Vuitton, who asked if he'd like to collaborate on a collection of handbags. This is not the kind of creating Koons normally does.

He is one of today's most acclaimed contemporary artists, whose monumental pieces are exhibited in museums around the world, and whose interests extend to blow up toys, household appliances and kitsch rather than luxury fashion accessories.

Now 62, Koons has produced a parade of eye popping works that include Rabbit, a stainless steel cast of an inflatable bunny; Puppy, a 43ft high West Highland terrier embedded with living flowers; and Play Doh, a copy of a multicoloured lump that one of his sons made as a toddler only this took 20 years to complete and is almost twice the height of the average person.

Koons doesn't need 1:1 replica handbags to work. But when he got the call from Arnault about the bags, he found himself saying yes which is not something Koons says lightly.

'I knew it would be a really large commitment, because if I make something, I really want to make something that's worthy of spending that energy and time, and hopefully create something that has a profoundness about it, and a reason for being.'

We meet in his studio, a low lying commercial building in Chelsea, New York (he has another space in Hell's Kitchen), where he's worked for the past 17 years.

At first I took the breakfast cereal to be the prototype for a new art piece, but it turns out that Koons likes to snack on them throughout the day. 'I love Cheerios!' he says, cheerily.

At 62 Koons looks much like he did at 32: handsome in Fake Louis Vuitton Replica Bags an American way clean, neat hair, perfect teeth. He is dressed in a navy blue shirt and spotless dark jeans.

http://totheigh52833.blogspot.com/2020/06/women-in-sport-scrum-half-has-been-part.html He may produce art with a playful edge, but in person he is soft spoken with a replica louis vuitton strange earnestness. His goal, he kept saying, was 'transcendence to help people find something of greater interest than self'.

He first collaborated with the group about six years ago when he produced a limited edition champagne bottle holder (and bottle and case gift sets) for Dom Prignon (also owned by LVMH).

Based on his sculpture Balloon Venus, the 2ft tall, fuchsia figure cost $20,000 (not including the bottle of champagne). What Koons liked was the group's access to top quality technical know how. 'They work with companies involved in moulding, production, colouring, and have everything at such a high standard,' he explains.

Koons is focused on pushing materials to their limits and demands flawless execution. replica louis vuitton bags To achieve the reflective brilliance of the stainless steelhe used for BalloonDog, for example, took months of polishing and many remakes. He wanted every fold and crease to look balloon like.

For Winter Bears, a pair of wooden bears grinning and waving paws, he spent many months in Germany and Italy tracking down the best wood carvers. And replica louis vuitton his larger than life rendering of Michael Jackson with his pet money, Bubbles, is made from finest porcelain.

The Louis Vuitton collaboration launching with a selection high quality designer replica handbags of bags (iPad covers and wallets are in the pipeline) draws upon Koons's Gazing Ball series: large scale reproductions of famous works by classical masters, which he started in 2013.

It's an impulse that was prompted by the acute embarrassment he felt as a young art student during a visit to the Baltimore Museum of Art when he realised that he didn't know much high quality replica handbags china about the works on display.

The Gazing Ball paintings have been transposed on to the surfaces of the handbags, and each is emblazoned with the name of the original artist whose work is represented Titian, Fragonard, Rubens, Van Gogh, da Vinci.

Other embellishments include a tag in the shape of an inflatable rabbit 'a reference to my presence', Koons explains and the initials JK (in a reconfiguration of the Louis Vuitton monogram). Koons says the aesthetic is 'metallic, street, bling', but with the Designer Louis Vuitton Replica Handbags sophistication of LV. (Handbag aficionados will recognise some of the styles: Speedy, the Keepall and the Neverfull.)

Jeff Koons spent his early years in York, an old industrial city in Pennsylvania. His father, an interior decorator, owned a furniture store and his mother was a housewife and seamstress who made wedding dresses. 'When my father designed an interior, he would sit down and sketch everything out on graph paper.

'If you ordered a replica louis vuitton handbags sofa from my father, and a love seat, and a lamp and a mirror, you knew exactly what you were getting because he would create a drawing that would be very, very precise.

'You wouldn't envision a lamp of 4ft tall and receive a 12in one,' he says. 'He taught me vision and that sense of caring.'

He studied art in Baltimore, transferring for an influential final year to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was taught by Ed Paschke, one of the 'Chicago Imagists', a group marked by irreverence and attention grabbing populism. Koons got pushed into avant garde circles.

He settled in New York in 1977 and got a job selling memberships at the Museum of Modern Art, where he was noted for his outfits polka dot shirts, floral vests, big bow ties, and an occasional inflatable plastic flower and for doubling the membership roll (he is adept at selling and supported himself for five years as a highly successful commodities broker).

A turning point came in the mid 1980s when Charles Saatchi, the advertising and public relations executive, then one of the world's most active buyers of contemporary art, started acquiring works by Koons. But it was Banality, an exhibition held simultaneously in New York, Chicago and Cologne in 1988, that made him an art star.

Each of the works including the Michael Jackson and Bubbles figure was made in triplicate, and the show earned Koons a lot of money. And yet the rise hasn't been smooth.

In the '90s he nearly lost everything. By 1993 his private life was cracking up, with the divorce from replica louis vuitton bags from china Staller and a custody battle over their son, Ludwig. Although the US courts had awarded custody to Koons, Staller fled to Rome with baby Ludwig, and the Italian courts awarded her custody of their child.

Koons spent millions of dollars in legal battles over the next decade but without success. 'I ended up selling everything,' he says proofs (or 'artist's copies') of his earlier sculptures; prized works by Roy Lichtenstein. 'I ended up not having any money.'

Koons credits his comeback to 'art' and to Wheeler. They married in 2002 and went on to have six children: Sean, 15, Kurt, 13, Blake, 11, Eric, 10, Scarlet, six, and Mick, four.

Koons is often accused of cynicism; in fact he is more of a romantic, and a family man who is especially touching when talking about his children. Still coming to the terms with the emotional fallout from the loss of Ludwig, in 2007 he created the Koons Family Institute on International Law Policy, an offshoot of the International Centre for Missing Exploited Children (ICMEC), which fights child abduction (either by strangers or by family members).