Stephen Sprouse.
Louis Vitton and their current lead collaborator Marc Jacobs have teamed up to pay homage to one of their previous designers Stephen Sprouse. Stephen was notorious for having helped create the fashionably sensible/punk style mashup of the 1980's.
His initial venture into fashion production began with his line of clothing that brought high end fashion and combined it with large graffiti style pieces. Although adored by critics and sold in exclusively high end boutiques, he claimed bacnkruptcy in June of 1985.
He was eventually tapped by Louis Vitton to do a collaboration with Marc Jacobs to design for a series of bags, which were once again adored by critics and sold out almost instantly.
Sprouse inevitably passed away in 2004 from Lung cancer. He was 50. 
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come to ny and ill take you to the sprouse gallery, my friend is the curator
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