aleXsandro Palombo has created a name juxtaposing famed figures with a certain approach that invites controversy. The Italian artist focuses on fashion, with an added attention to the runway will add flame to the fire with Humor Chic, a book that will debut in 2010. Palombo adds “a regular meeting point for everyone who shares my incurable sense of humor and a vein of poetic folly; an illustrated talk show that reveals reality and raises it to fantasy, dream and magic.”
In the meantime though you can enjoy this exclusive mini illustrated story “Karl’s Journey” about Karl Lagerfeld. A brilliant caricature of one of fashions most eccentric personalities as he stops by Le Tour Eiffel and gets on Le Metro before being stalked by aliens before hitting the red carpet with Karl straight into their UFO. You can define the involvement of the extraterrestrials which ever way you like because I think that is the intention.
While this story gives you greater insight of what aleXsandro Palombo’s work is about you will have to stay tuned for more or what to get your hands on the book to see similar takes on the lieks of Anna Wintour and Barack Obama amongst a host of others.
