Stephen Sprouse Mania!: 2009 Brings Retrospective, Book, Website, and New Louis Vuitton Collection

Remember those wildly popular handbags scrawled with “Louis Vuitton” in the distinctive graffiti of Stephen Sprouse? They’re back and better than ever, nine years after Marc Jacobs first risked tweaking the famed LV logo (good move). An expanded collection of Vuitton apparel and accessories adorned with the signatures of the late artist, who died of lung cancer in 2004, arrives in stores Friday, the day after a retrospective exhibition of Sprouse’s work opens at Deitch