Kanye West Summer Interning at the GAP

Although he hoped to land an unpaid internship at Raf Simons or Louis Vuitton, where he’s already designed some sneakers, Kanye West is secretly interning at the Gap’s offices in New York according to Us Weekly: “He works all the time, and one Friday night recently, he stayed until 12 am. He’s learning the fashion business from the inside and trying to do it quietly.” More surprisingly, Yeezy hasn’t posted any all-caps rants about the work yet, presumably because they don’t have him fetching coffee or he actually has been making progress on his “CRAZY EGO.” |Jezebel|

Artist Pimps Out Takashi Murakami

After blasting the brains out of artist Damien Hirst earlier this year, artist Eugenio Merino goes after Takashi Murakami, creating a caricature of the Louis Vuitton-designing artist doing his best impression of Pretty Woman’s star prostitute.

Merino says, “There is certain contradiction between art and design – and Murakami has clearly chosen money,” and notes “the sculpture wears an original Louis Vuitton bag designed by Murakami,” not just any Canal Street knockoff. |rebel:art|

Louis Vuitton Doesn’t Appreciate Kanye West’s Marketing Advice

New York magazine called bullshit on Kanye West’s claim that the photos he posted of himself along with naked model girlfriend Amber Rose will be used to promote the sneaker collaboration he did with Louis Vuitton: “[S]ources have just informed the Cut that the images are not part of a Louis Vuitton ad campaign of any kind. |NY Mag|

Louis Vuitton and Murakami Broke the Code

Tokyo-based design firm SET spruced up a QR Code in support of the ongoing fashion collaborations between artist Takashi Murakami and fashion giant Louis Vuitton. Although the code is certainly more colorful, ornate, and branded than the typical black and white block versions, it does have one major flaw: none of the phones we tested could actually decode it. If any of our more technically inclined readers can decipher it, drop us a line. |Jean Snow|

Kanye’s Lily-White Louies

Style centric rapper and wannabe fashion intern Kanye West decided to let the cat out of the bag early on the rumored sneakers he left blank designed for Louis Vuitton. He was spotted coming out of the luxury brand’s LA store and pointed TMZ’s gossip hounds to the rather unremarkable white on white kicks. After trying to get all experimental on his last project, he decided to play it pretty safe and not think so outside the box on these. |Soleblvd|

Louis Vuitton’s Burglary Encouraging Window Display

Have you heard? Criminal chic is so in this year. Not to be outdone by Lord & Tayor’s graffiti window displays, Louis Vuitton created this more felonious concept: The company’s Fifth Avenue flagship in New York currently features two windows with the bag in a museum-like glass case, surrounded by chrome and metallic security cameras pointing at it. The adjacent windows show the same scenario, except with the cases broken into, glass shards on the floor, the bags missing and the security lasers activated.” But it might have been a little too real, with the NYPD reportedly responding to the scene “to investigate the broken glass” last week. |WWD via Blogue|

Louis Vuitton Doggie Bag

This has to be one of the most frightening Louie perversions of recent. Created by Meryl Smith out of leather, papier-mache, and paint, “Excessory Baggage” explores the mini-canine as accessory craze. It was featured in anti-gallery, Honey Space’s recent “Object Salon” show that exhibited the three-dimensional works of 42 artists, all of who created art within the parameters of it meeting the size and weight requirements of international carry-on luggage. |CounterfeitChic|