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...is the current frontage of Selfridges, which is advertising Luis Vuitton by filling all the windows with various dresses etc. with polka-dots and hundreds upon hundreds of these

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They're mostly about a foot high, but there's an enormous one over the entrance...

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This video shows their installation but does not explain why this was considered a good idea:





Anyone else find this as creepy as I do?

Date: 2012-10-20 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] original-aj.livejournal.com
It looks like a Dr Who episode to me!

Date: 2012-10-20 02:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vincentursus.livejournal.com
That was my thought as well.

Date: 2012-10-20 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
And mine. Mini Autons.

Date: 2012-10-20 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeriendhal.livejournal.com
....

The fuck?

Date: 2012-10-20 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Art. Allegedly.

Date: 2012-10-20 09:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] were-gopher.livejournal.com
That's a Japanese artist called Yayoi Kusama who's main theme is polka dots and, yes, she is creepy. She had a big retrospective at the Tate earlier in the year which may be why they're doing it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama
Edited Date: 2012-10-20 09:02 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-10-20 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Yes, that's apparently the artist behind this, according to the video. Seriously strange...

Date: 2012-10-20 09:40 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] feorag.livejournal.com
The Louis Vuitton shops have window displays of tentacles in the same polka dot pattern. It's a world wide thing, and I blame [livejournal.com profile] fluffcthulhu.

Date: 2012-10-20 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Oh, I would have liked tentacles. But the dolls are just creepy without redeeming features.

Date: 2012-10-21 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com
Yes, saw those in the Manchester store window and failed a San roll.

Leader of Evil Cultists: I have a new plan for world domination!
Minions: Yes, master?
Leader of Evil Cultists: We shall no longer try to summon Cthulhu using blood sacrifice and repetitive chanting. Instead we shall use... fashion!
Minions: Sir, have you been reading the mind-warping Ancient Tomes again?

Date: 2012-10-22 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Sounds about right.

Date: 2012-10-20 10:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com
Yes. That is nightmarish.

Date: 2012-10-20 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Exactly.

Date: 2012-10-20 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Yuck! Remind me not to shop there....

Date: 2012-10-20 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
It's really very off-putting somehow.

Date: 2012-10-20 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I think it's the posture of the dolls that makes them creepy.

Date: 2012-10-21 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
I don't think it's possible to find any way in which they're NOT creepy, but I know what you mean.

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