EXCLUSIVE: Dom Pérignon Collaborates With Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is the latest artist to collaborate with Dom Pérignon, the Champagne brand owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.

This time, Murakami has lent his smiling flower motif to recreate two limited-edition bottles — the Dom Pérignon Vintage 2015 and the Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 2010.

An “Uber” piece — a made-to-order artwork — will be available for a select few. Hand-sculpted and -painted, it takes the form of a perfect sphere that opens to reveal a secret garden.

The collaboration is launching worldwide on Wednesday.

For Vincent Chaperon, the brand’s chef de cave, the collaboration is meant to perpetuate a dialogue between tradition and invention.

“We see heritage not as something fixed, but as transmission through time,” Chaperon said.

“Through my collaboration with Dom Pérignon, I wanted to express a form of time travel,” Murakami explained. “I hope that people of the future, when they see it, will reimagine 2025 in their own minds,” he added.

To celebrate the launch, Dom Pérignon will host a cocktail event at Kaikai Kiki Gallery on Oct. 9 in Tokyo.

The brand has collaborated with Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeff Koons, David Lynch and Lenny Kravitz in the past.

The Murakami collaboration is an extension of Dom Pérignon’s latest campaign, titled “Creation is an eternal journey.”

The campaign also features Tilda Swinton, Zoë Kravitz, Anderson .Paak and Iggy Pop, as well as Swedish dancer and choreographer Alexander Ekman and northern Irish chef Clare Smyth.