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This limited-edition collection ("I have lived for love, I have lived for art", fall 11/12) springs from the collaboration with the Italian artist Elena Monzo.

Elena Monzo, established artist represented internationally by Bonelli Contemporary Gallery, joins the discourse of Factoria Rent Me for this new season.

"Just kids", the Best Seller by Patti Smith, is the main source of inspiration for this collection.
The book speaks about the love affair between Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, in a time where idealism and the love of art was a way to live and feel. A young innocent, pure vision faced with changes of time; sexual freedoms, religions and sects, and political disagreements...

Robert is the key to this collection. A young man who has doubts about his sexuality, struggling to come to terms with his religion and the internal demons which tormented him. Robert finds release through artistic expression to become one of the world’s most renowned photographers. Mapplethorpe’s now well know crazy necklaces, crucifixes, and rabbit paw charms, color the collection for this new season. The photographers work can be seen through the collection’s feminine style, evoking his idealistic spirit that art can spring from love.

In order to bring across this concept, Elena Monzo has offered two of her paintings, creating a clothe-art piece, a statement of femininity, freedom, fresh energy in the effort to feel how art was felt years ago.

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Limited edition with the famous american artist TOM SANFORD.

Tom Sanford is a New York-based artist whose work is exhibited around the world. His paintings, which range from historical works depicting celebrity assassinations to portraits of gangsta rappers and teen pop tarts to elaborate cosmologies weaved together from Hollywood movies, reflect a deep ambivalence about the American cultural condition. He is recognised for his work in the gallery Leo Koening in NYC.

Making possible the fusion of fashion and art, Sanford shows three of his paintings; Olsen Twins, Dollar Bill and Scheibe World, that narrate his vision of American society. "Los Angeles Caidos" is the name of this new collection, packed with subliminal messages, messages for a lost society that needs to return to the Light. Paintings and designs that talk about economic crisis dates ‘Scheibe world’, art for business like the Damian Hirst piece ‘For the love of God’, losing artistic romanticism or the Olsen Twins as a new religion. A new collection that keeps the spirit of Factory Rent Me more alive than ever.

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"Sur en Bas" it is a collection that speaks about the union between Paris and Barcelona, two cities that complement each other, one adding classicism and fashion culture and the other one giving youth and creativity.
Two unions that heighten the idea of Factory Rent Me of negatives and unions.

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