Murakami, who was born in Tokyo in Japan, is known for his unique ability to combine traditional Japanese art training with popular culture. His work, which is often deliriously colorful and cheerful, blends high art with what is considered to be pedestrian. Murakami's seemingly harmless work hides a darker message. It is "a subtle criticism of Japan's current culture and the West's intrusion upon it," according to his artist profile on theartstory.org. Murakami was inspired to create his widely recognized Flowers. The original intention behind the piece was to convey the devastation caused by the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings in 1945.
Murakami's Flower, which was created in 1995, has appeared on the collaborations of names like Ben Baller Kanye West Supreme, Louis Vuitton and Virgil Abloh, to name a couple. Swiss Omega Replica approached him in order to bring his artwork into the world Swiss watchmaking.
Murakami recalls: "My friend Fed Tan, of fashion marketing agency Social/Capital, in Hong Kong, messaged me three times in the fall of 2019 that Michael Tay from The Hour Glass wanted to meet me about a Swiss Omega Replica collaboration. I already had a watch collaboration that involved a Japanese independent watchmaker named Hajime asaoka. It was a complication timepiece, so I thought it would be enough. "But after many requests, I reluctantly agreed to a meeting."
What then convinced him? "Whether we would do a collaborative project or not was another story," he continues. It was my wish to get involved in the watchmaking industry at a level where I could create a totally original piece. My decision was based on whether this was possible.
Miwa-san (Miwa Sakai, Asia Pacific Region Director at Swiss Omega Replica Japan) said that it was possible and she asked me to come visit the factory in Switzerland, so they could prove it. In early 2020 I visited the factory and was truly, utterly blown away by the way it combined both super-high technology and artisan values. I was confident that they could make the watch I imagined, so I decided to move forward with the partnership."(Rolex Replica Watches)