Maripol

Maripol’s work as an art director, designer, and film producer has influenced popular movements in music, fashion and art since the early 1980s. For the first time, she is opening her scrapbooks of drawings, design, photography and writing to create a book that captures her personality as an artist. With a fascination in fashion that goes back to her mother and grandmother Mathilde, Maripol was a natural model for the myths and legends that rocked her youth and made her a winner for the best costume contest at school as Little Red Riding Hood. Fresh out of Les Beaux Arts, she landed in New York and a job with Fiorucci based on her designs of wearable sculpture and jewelry made from industrial objects. Textures, fabrics, and scents were no stranger to a girl who grew up in Africa... From that auspicious beginning, her designs permeated the art, music and fashion of the following three decades. Madonna, Keith Haring and Basquiat are a few of the significant people of our times that she has influenced, filmed, and photographed. Currently, she is collaborating with Marc Jacobs for accessories. The material presented in this book exposes the genius of having kept these journals intact and the fragility of an innocent little girl growing fast in the world of the big bad wolves...