Can a pattern make you happier? Yayoi Kusama thinks so. Of polka dots, her signature motif, the spot-obsessed Japanese artist wrote: “They scatter proliferating love in the universe and raise my ...

“All patterns in fashion are cyclical; however, the polka dot never seems to be truly ‘out of fashion’—it just tends to pop in at different times,” says Kelly Sparks, co-designer and ...