Lyrois

Gas Masks from Louis Vuitton and Gucci

Diddo Velema, Gucci and Louis Vuitton collaborate on, of all things, gas-masks --

As long as it's got monograms and diamonds, we'll wear it...

If you need even more apocalypse, and matching suits, Kanye West has the pics from Diddo Velema.

Labels: diamonds, fashion, gucci, louis+vuitton, lyrois, monogram

Tees: The Mohawk-Logo

The Mohawk-Logo as requested, on a tee. On the back, the 2008 Dancer's-Logo.

Here is the money-shot --

Lyrois Tees: The Mohawk Shirt.

Labels: 2008, fashion, lyrois, mohawk+logo, tees

Cut & Sew: The Difference between Haute Couture and Prêt-à-Porter

I know that you know the difference. I also know that you know that one sells the other. But in the shop, it comes down to --

Haute Couture

Envision, design, cut, sew, repeat.

Prêt-à-Porter

Envision, design, cut, cut, cut, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, refine, refine, repeat.

Cut...

... and sew.

Working on it...

Labels: 2008, couture, cut+and+sew, fashion, haute+couture, lyrois, making+of, pret+a+porter, preview

Instructions, Obedience, Discipline: The Fault of the General

If the instructions are not clear, if the orders are not obeyed, it is the fault of the general. But if the instructions are clear and the soldiers still do not obey, it is the fault of their officers. --Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Sometimes, virtuosity develops in the second row. Uninstructed, apparently disobedient and seemingly undisciplined.

Labels: 2008, art, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, miniatures, murals

Headless Pixel Madness with the Dancer's Logo

One of several variations of the dancer's logo. A production goof as it turned out.

As somebody pointed out, the dancer's head was somehow missing --

It reappeared in a later version --

Pixel by pixel, whatever it takes.

Labels: fashion, goofs, graffiti, logotypes, lyrois, making+of, pixel+art, pixel+series, special+edition, tees, typography

Introducing the Lyrois S/S 2008 Stylebook

A partial menu for the year 2008, with spring and summer hints on design, fashion, and art projects, as well as signposts pointing to other things yet to come, explore, and create.

Lyrois: The Stylebook Spring/Summer 2008.

A printable PDF-file is available upon request. Here are the pics --

1. The colors: Purple × Black × White (× Aluminum × Vinyl...)
2. Exploring space: Wall decals in human sizes and wallpapers featuring miniature patterns. Big-size shapes mounted to the edges of rooms, tiny ones on the planes of small objects.
3. Speed: Urban, Streets, Raw, Asphalt, Concrete, Light, Motion.
4. Fabrics: Purple patterns printed on white and black fleece.
5. Luxury: Temple, Marble, Gloss, Stairs, Circles.
6. Cropped and square: Shapes in purple, white, and black on exquisite, white aluminum. Special editions in white on white.
7. Custom: Corporate art exclusively featuring this year's colorways.
8. Finite art: Signature-colored miniature shapes on black vinyl.
9. Innocence: Plants, Leaves, Nature, Organic, Delicacy, Moderation.
10. Decoration and store furniture: Vinyl decals and 3-dimensionally laser-cut shapes in colored acrylic glass.
11. Excess: Gargoyles, Creatures, Stone, Spirits, Weird, Strange.
12. Tees and limited edition prints: 3-color-graphics and one-of-a-kind shirts featuring the dancer's logo.

Enjoy and consider yourself teased...

Labels: 2008ss, aluminum, announcement, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper

The Lyrois Story

Lyrois is an art scheme, an experimental brand, and a design meme in the making. Lyrois sounds similar to the french Le Roi, yet it is otherwise unrelated.

In 1997, Alexander Becker drew a bunch of shapes, 17 figures gathered around the silhouette of a dancer. Since then, they come back, year after year, in always different styles and designs, decorating bags and wallpapers, populating store walls and windows, as well as being featured on tiny vinyl stickers and as huge decals.

The original vector-graphics, their lines combining fragile leaves and powerful graffiti strokes, are never altered themselves, their outlines always remain unchanged. Everything else evolves around these already iconic shapes.

Projects -- upcoming or completed -- include Lyrois-appearances in architecture, fashion, and art productions, as well as unique collaborations in store- and interior design.

Behind the Scenes is covering everything from the Lyrois universe: Ready-made art for sale and to be given away, customizations, commercial projects and collaborations, also previews of work in progress.

Some things are not for the public, which allows only partial views that often lead to interesting speculations about the unseen and many times result in new expressions of a visual language that is built along the way.

Announcements and fragmentary ideas are collected and documented here, exemplary designs and some making-of posts that reveal how it's done.

The peaking behind the scenes, reporting straight from the shop, is based on the idea of developing in public, we could just as well hide everything and wait 'til we're there but that wouldn't be nearly as exciting as creating here and as-is.

Labels: architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, vinyl