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VISIONAIRE NO. 45: KIDROBOT - MORE TOYS (YELLOW) + MORE TOYS (BLUE) - COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES
(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, Editor. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2005. First Editions 1/2500. Narrow Oblong Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Fashion Quarterly. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Two individual sets of 5 polychrome vinyl figures each housed in a cardboard and plastic case, with a leporello pamphlet laid in. Published in an edition of two thousand, five hundred copies, this is the forty-fifth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, For this fun issue Visionaire has once again collaborated with vanguard toy manufacturer Kidrobot to create an original Visionaire soft vinyl figure, then further collaborated with ten world renowned fashion designers to customize that figure into ten different characters. The issue is released in two different versions (one blue, one yellow) limited to two thousand, five hundred copies each containing five toys, with an accompanying booklet picturing all ten designs. The characters and booklets are packaged inside a molded plastic and cardboard case. The yellow set features the designs by Gucci, Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garcons, Christian Lacroix for Emilio Pucci, and Maison Martin Margiela, while the blue includes John Galliano, Helmut Lang, Jean Paul Gaultier, Stefano Pilati for Yves Saint Laurent, and Giorgio Armani. Kidrobot is the world's premier creator of limited edition art toys designed by world-renowned artists with backgrounds in graffiti and fine art, illustration, graphic and industrial design, and music. A pristine numbered example of each of the Yellow and Blue toys (#1245/2500 Yellow + 0844/2500 Blue) still in the publishers bubble-wrap, as issued. 1-888645-52-0 Inventory Number: 022370