Word: maxx
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...Meet Maxx, an 18-year-old graphic designer. He's super-hip, never smiles, has a pierced right ear and sports a few tattoos. A skate-rat, he wears low-rise shorts (to show off his boxers) and DC shoes. Oh, and he's 30 cm tall. And made out of plastic. But Maxx isn't just another Ken or G.I. Joe doll. Maxx has attitude?and a cult following. So does his 31-year-old Hong Kong creator Michael Lau, whose original, street-savvy figures have molded him into a hot icon among the most unlikely doll collectors imaginable...
...kachet. A grownup who collects G.I. Joes is a bit of a loser while a twentysomething with a full Crazychildren set is, you know, way datable. The artist is coy about his yearly earnings, but reiterates that fun, not money, gets him off. Many of his figures?like Maxx and the 100 other handmade street-punk dolls in his Gardener series?are unique. Even the factory-produced pieces of the 10 series he's designed so far have limited-edition runs of 500 to 1,000. That's part of their attraction and accounts for their soaring value as collectibles...
...Anodize asked me to do an illustration for their CD cover," he says. "I came up with five action figures, representing each member." Another friend, from the weekly East Touch magazine, asked him to create a comic strip the following year. The lead character was a skater dude named Maxx who had a gang of cool, streetwear-stylish pals. The Gardener collective was born. Since 1999, Sony Music Entertainment Television has owned the Japanese license to the Gardener series and has plastered them on key rings, T shirts and Visa cards...
Powered by electric pumps, these aquatic Nirvana kits are being sold in stores as varied as Bed Bath & Beyond, OfficeMax and the Sports Authority. Helene Jeffer, a middle-aged Board of Education supervisor in New York City, recently bought one at T.J. Maxx. "It's very soothing," she says, but confesses to having moved the 24-hour trickler out of her bedroom because it inspired too many trips to the bathroom...
...Paris. Dior designer JOHN GALLIANO, whose last couture line was inspired by homelessness, this time claimed the correspondence of Sigmund Freud sparked his desire to make clothes that a child might see while looking through the keyhole of his mother's boudoir. (Presumably Mrs. G. was not a T.J. Maxx shopper.) The show was staged as a mock wedding, with cross-bearing mandarins and gorilla women strolling down the runway to a sound track of orgasmic moans. A few were outraged, but most fashion pros merely chuckled. As Freud might have said, sometimes a gorilla woman is just a gorilla...