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(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, Editor. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2005. First Edition 1/2500. Narrow Oblong Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Fashion Quarterly. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. 5 polychrome vinyl figures housed in a blue 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 sets (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. This set (blue) features the designs by 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. An internally most handsome unnumbered example marked "Display" whose unprinted exterior cardboard box shows some mild wear. It has been priced accordingly. 1-888645-50-4 Inventory Number: 022666