Takashi Murakami’s model, Ohana Hatake, arrives in London

Takashi Murakami’s delirious collages of grinning flowers – their contours impressed by the artwork of anime and manga – have develop into a leitmotif of the Japanese artist’s work, adorning partitions of galleries, Louis Vuitton purses, and even the quilt of Wallpaper* (evoked within the method of a classic online game, certainly one of his flowers appeared on the limited-edition November 2023 Artwork Challenge to rejoice the opening of an exhibition on the Asian Artwork Museum in San Francisco).

So when it got here to the creation of a brand new footwear line – which was launched in November 2024 at ComplexCon Las Vegas – it was unsurprising that Murakami would place this iconic motif entrance and centre, seeing a daring rendering of the artist’s traditional flower adorn vibrant, outsized sliders in comfortable EVA foam (the model’s identify, Ohana Hatake, interprets from Japanese as ‘subject of flowers’). In line with Murakami, it’s the ‘first-of-its-kind footwear model led by an artist’, in addition to marking his personal debut style label, regardless of having created a slew of merch and collaborated with the likes of Uniqlo and Louis Vuitton.

Takashi Murakami’s Ohana Hatake arrives at Selfridges

From right this moment, Ohana Hatake is accessible in a vibrant pop-up at The Nook Store Selfridges, an ephemeral house on the entrance of the London division retailer which has hosted latest residencies from the likes of Loewe, Celine and Jacquemus. Promising a full-scale immersion into the Murakami universe – count on boldly-hued shows and subsequent Instagram ubiquity – the shop can be open from right this moment (August 4 2025) till August 24 2025.

The pop-up follows a second launch occasion on the Hong Kong ComplexCon in November, which noticed Murakami create a bucolic (fake) backyard on the streetwear conference, full with sprouting grass, flowers and cherry bushes within the bloom of sakura blossom. He has additionally revealed the counterpart to the ‘Ohana Full-Bloom’ slider, one other slip-on type in EVA foam which is impressed by the Japanese home slipper (easier in design, it nonetheless options an embossed flower motif and flower-adorned sole).

In the meantime, a few days in the past, an analogous set up appeared at Hong Kong’s Pacific Place mall, the place a blossom tree is topped with a perpetually falling confetti of petals – the form of fantastical world-building that Murakami has lengthy proved adept at.