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| Goyard St Louis Tote |
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| Boyarde Messenger |
Boyarde Messenger is a 32-year-old British pop
artist known for "painting on everything but
paper." Messenger started by painting the female body but rose to fame six
months ago when she ventured into painting accessories. This move was prompted
when she collaborated with her friend Charlotte Della, the designer for popular
shoe brand Charlotte Olympia. Della commissioned Messenger to paint 100 shoes
for her label, which were exclusively sold at Neiman Marcus, and earned
Messenger, mentions in American fashion tomes like Vogue and
ELLE.
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| Hèrmes Birkin Bag |
Messenger channeled her new confidence and set out
to develop methods for painting luxury bags. She explained, “It took me quite a
while to learn,” the process. “Before I started, I experimented on vintage bags
and learned to understand how leathers are all different. They breathe
differently; you really have to understand the canvas you are working on.”
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| Louis Vuitton Neverfull |
Messengers customizes Goyard, as well as Hermès,
Louis Vuitton, and Balenciaga bags with “feminist-tinged” work for private
clients who pay up to $3,000 to have their already-pricey goods upgraded by
Messengers’s lofty hand. Messenger has developed specific painting processes
for each type of bag material. They all begin by tracing the shape of her
custom illustration onto the bags. But even though Messenger is has a lot of
expirence painting high end goods it does not make the expirence any less
stressful “I’m very confident with what I’m doing, but the process of painting
on such an expensive bag is petrifying” and that the most nerve-wracking of all
her commissions are Hermès leather bags.
Although Messenger has been very successful and is
in high demand she is looking to break out from the custom-commission mold. She
says that one day she ‘would love to do a collaboration with a fashion brand,’
to follow up her inaugural fashion experience with Charlotte Olympia.
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