Fafi

What do you get when you mix sassy illustrations with the best make-up around? MAC’s hot new collection which just so happens to be a collaboration with designer, Fafi. I’ve always been a fan of Fafi’s graffiti art. Its really cool watching an artist develop and I’m a huge supporter of this exciting “next step” for her.

Fafi grew up in France where she developed “a fascination with street art and a courageous desire to run with the ‘big boys.’

[Fafi] promptly dropped out of school and went grassroots when she began painting characters on her hometown walls in 1994 against the backdrop of the vibrant local graffiti scene. Her first images consisted of green Martians in profile, but she found the lack of emotion she could present stifling. This led to the creation of a group of sassy, sexy, and sometimes outright outrageous group of human-esque girl characters called the Fafinettes, which soon became her trademark. Word on the street travels fast, and soon this new graphic language — with its exploration of femininity through subversive stereotypes– was catching on. Thus, the Toulouse girl gathered up her brushes and paint cans and branched out to Paris and then the world, leaving her Fafinette legacy on the planetary playground of Europe, U.S.A., Japan, and Hong Kong. Soon enough Sony would ask her to design a six-character toy set for the Time Capsules collection, an almost natural move for her three-dimensional measures. Other successful figurines would follow, as well as numerous expositions and collaborations with Sony, Colette, Adidas, LeSportSac, and Coca-Cola, plus countless press stories in prestigious magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and The Face. Recently, her vision sprung to life in an animated Mark Ronson video featuring a Fafi-ed Lily Allen, and documented in
the print world via books: Girls Rock (2003) and Love and Fafiness (2006). Now that she’s a mother, she’s stretched
her creative wings further to create a new dimension for the Fafinettes, an entire dreamy universe called the Carmine Vault filled with new characters as magical and diverse as the girls themselves.

Be sure to check out Fafi’s website (you can also hook up with her on MySpace). Also be sure to check out MAC’s inspired new line!

On a side note:

I’m so sick of seeing girls wearing spandex with UGGS that at first, I considered devoting an entire post to how horrible this “trend” is. But then I remembered that I wrote a similar post OVER TWO YEARS AGO complaining about this exact thing. In that post, I promised it would be my last post fully devoted to my hatred of UGGS. Instead of boring you to tears with a new rant, please refer to the old post (with 2008 edits).