Visionaire Limited edition Dior Homme, McQueen, LV, Prada Toys

[ionn26]

Has Anyone heard about the Visionair Toys designed by different designers and limited edition?

What is the story with that???

They are like $100 each??? WTF?

 

[valak]

You can find the one from Hedi Slimane on E-bay!

 

[Arturo21]

Let me guess..the first one on the top is Dior Homme.

 

[softgrey]

first time i've seen this..

so i recognize the first one is karl...
and the first on the bottom is LV...
and the orange one on top is hermes...
i see hedi on the bottom...

but who are the rest by...any info?...

 

[raimund]

first time i've seen this..

so i recognize the first one is karl...
and the first on the bottom is LV...
and the orange one on top is hermes...
i see hedi on the bottom...

but who are the rest by...any info?...

The middle one in the lower row is by Hedi Slimane. I speculate it to be paying homage to the plissé by M. Dior, in a bichromatic treatment. The robots, by KidRobot, are accompanying the Visionaire #44, of which 2000 copies of each of the Red Version and Black Version are to be released.


Raimund

 

[raimund]

first time i've seen this..

so i recognize the first one is karl...
and the first on the bottom is LV...
and the orange one on top is hermes...
i see hedi on the bottom...

but who are the rest by...any info?...

It's so much fun. Let me guess more - the rightmost one in the upper row is by Donatella Versace and the fourth one, from the left, in the lower row by Viktor & Rolf.

 

[raimund]

first time i've seen this..

so i recognize the first one is karl...
and the first on the bottom is LV...
and the orange one on top is hermes...
i see hedi on the bottom...

but who are the rest by...any info?...

I'm wrong. That one is not by Donatella, but Valentino!

The answers are here:

http://www.visionaireworld.com/v2/fla_site/site.html

 

[softgrey]

thanks for the link raimund...
i also got versace and viktor and rolf...

 

[metal-on-metal]

They've been out for quite awhile. There was an article on Yahoo's front page about it back in December! I'll try to dig it up.

 

[TheSoCalledPrep]

woow... so cool. It would be better, I think, if you could just buy one. I don't know how many they're going to sell at 1000 a set...

 

[metal-on-metal]

They were originally going for $175 a set, but I guess they have so few left now.

 

[metal-on-metal]

From Fashion Wire Daily

TOYS Are Us: Visionaire Issue 44

Lauren David Peden

Fashion Wire Daily December 20, 2004 - NEW YORK - Preschool tots aren't the only ones hoping to find toys under the tree come Christmas morn. Thanks to Visionaire magazine creators Stephen Gan and Cecilia Dean — whose latest Issue is devoted to 10 Kidrobot dolls designed by the likes of Hedi Slimane, Alexander McQueen, Donatella Versace and Jean Louis Dumas for Hermes — fashionistas are also adding palm-sized playthings (and not the vibrating kind) to their holiday wish lists.

"Stephen Gan walks by the Kidrobot store on Prince Street all the time, and he was like, 'God, they are so great, let's do something with them,'" Visionaire editor Cecilia Dean told FWD.

The result: 10 haute couture plastic toys customized by a veritable Who's Who of fashion designers, all of whom submitted their ideas to Visionaire's editorial team who then formatted the files and acted as liaison between the designers and Kidrobot's factory in Asia.

"It was incredibly labor intensive," says Dean. "You have no idea." While Dean herself was flexible as to how the magazine accepted the artwork so as not impose limitations on the designers, Kidrobot had more stringent production requirements.

"If the designers wanted to hand-sketch something, they should be able to do that," she adds. "But when we got it we had to scan it into the computer and trace every single piece and assign it a Pantone color. Everything had to be broken down into a silk-screenable format. Our design team spent days on end working on one toy."

And the fun didn't end there. Because each pattern is stamped onto every single toy individually — there is no prefab Kidrobot assembly line — all 4,000 limited edition, numbered Visionaire figures had to go through the process (turned and stamped, turned and stamped, turned and stamped) over and over again.

"Most Kidrobot toys take maybe ten stamps," explains Dean. "Our toys took over 200 stamps each — 250 for the multilayered Versace design. Kidrobot said these are by far the most complicated designs they have ever dealt with. They kind of freaked out when they saw the level of complexity we were asking for, but they did a brilliant job."

Indeed. From the tiger-clad Valentino vixen to Louis Vuitton's logo lad to Miuccia Prada's robot babe to Dolce & Gabbana's lace-clad lady, each toy is a perfectly executed aesthetic embodiment of the designer who created it. And in the case of Lagerfeld and Viktor & Rolf, the toys are actual mini-mes of the designers themselves.

The toys are boxed in sets of five. The black set includes Lagerfeld, Hermes, McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana and Viktor & Rolf; the red set features Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Versace, Hedi Slimane and Prada — and each set comes with four tiny interchangeable accessories (a flower, cell phone, martini and camera) that can be clipped into the dolls' hands.

Visionaire subscribers will each receive one box set (chosen at random); the remaining toys can be purchased — $175 for a set of five — via www.visionaireworld.com, or at Rizzoli bookstores.

And if you miss out this time around, no prob. The idea was such a hit that Visionaire is already planning a second Toys issue for March, featuring ten more Kidrobot collaborations with designers such as John Galliano, Helmut Lang and Rei Kawakubo for Commes des Garçons. Let the games begin.

 

[Arturo21]

Let me guess..the first one on the top is Dior Homme.

No, oops, the first one is Karl Lagerfeld's one, high collared shirt and everything, so him.
Let me guess..the striped one is Dior Homme, the orange one with the Hermes logo ribbon..could it be Hermes?, I can't figure out which one the LV one is though....

 

[Deleted member 7575]

On the site there is a very short animation they did with the figures. Oh man they would be great to have! Maybe I need to subscribe?

 

[brian]

i want the [size=-1]hermès [/size]and louis vuitton ones. so cute.
i'd probably drill a hole into them and make keychains...

 

[Alejandro]

I love the McQueen, Hermes and the Hedi

 

[brian]

I love the McQueen, Hermes and the Hedi

make an earring!

 

[travolta]

thanks for the link! collectibles are hot

 

[stilista]

There are tons of them on Ebay....the Viktor & Rolf one sold at around $160 first time and there's one currently up for $70 buy it now...Hedi Slimani for starting price of $45.99 with no bids (it went for crazy money first time it was auctioned) He also has the whole Visionaire 'red' issue up, for $400 buy it now with 5 toys...

 

[Heroin_Chic]

They look like Dildos...