Bella Hadid poses topless with huge tote for new Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama campaign
Supermodel Bella Hadid showed off a seductive topless look in a recent Louis Vuitton campaign, created in collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. In a post on Instagram, the 26-year-old showed herself topless and had a large Louis Vuitton bag placed in front of her chest.
The post also included a video in which Bella could be seen painting polka dots in the air that floated around her like vibrant and colorful soap bubbles. The video was apparently taken from one of Kusama's multimedia works while she was lying on the floor.
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Bella captioned the post writing, "My first @louisvuitton campaign could not have been a better collaboration than @yayoikusama_ … not only am I the biggest fan , so intrigued with her story and life….but I connect with her deeply on healing mental struggles through artistic freedom and creation. I am so proud to do this campaign , and hope that one day I will be able to embrace Miss Kusama , and tell her how she important she is to not only me, but so many people struggling. Proud is the only word I have. Proud."
Another post by Bella quoted lines by Kusama, who has lived in a Tokyo asylum by choice since 1977. It said, "If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago." Another quote said, "Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art." "I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth," went another. "Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art," Kusama declared.
Bella said last year that she suffered from "eating disorders" when she was growing up. "Growing up, I thought it was normal that I had this chronic anxiety and this disassociation, crying every day and not knowing who I was," she told i-D. "Whether it was eating disorders or smoking a pack of Marlboros since the age of 14, I’m like, 'Oh, this is what all of the kids are doing.' I realized that maybe that was me trying to figure out why I felt that way. And in reality, all I needed was therapy."
Bella revealed that despite being a model, she still struggled with body dysmorphia, which had an impact on how she handled her fame. "During that part of my life, I was so out of body, disassociating so much... I was so confused by what people saw of me," she said. "I still, even now, see comments on Instagram when I’m sitting on the couch and am like, 'Are they talking about me?' I don’t understand how I’ve gotten to this point where people either appreciate my work or know who I am."