Robert Mapplethorpe / KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE
Summer 2024
KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE, the luxury lingerie and sexual wellness brand, unveiled a collection that fuses its provocative designs with Robert Mapplethorpe’s powerful photographs. Designed in KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE’s New York atelier, the collection comprises bondage-inspired leather lingerie as well as soft furnishing, loungewear and candles adorned with Robert Mapplethorpe’s images of male and female bodies. Clients of KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE and collectors and fans of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work can buy into the collection from a decorative matchbox up to a Boudoir Chaise complete with silk restraints embroidered with “Beauty and the devil are the same thing,” ––a quote attributed to Robert Mapplethorpe. KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE also tapped actress, model, and author Julia Fox to star in its campaign, lensed by seminal fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth.