Maripol's book ''Little Red Riding Hood'' featuring Madonna

Le livre "Little Red Riding Hood" de Maripol figurant Madonna.

Maripol: Little Red Riding Hood
Maripol (Author, Artist), Marc Jacobs (Contributor)
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Damiani (September 30, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8862081367
ISBN-13: 978-8862081368
Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 9.6 x 1 inches

Maripol: Little Red Riding Hood
Friday, August 27, 2010

Madonna's Original Style Mastermind Offers a Glimpse of New York's 80s Fairytale

From the moment Madonna appeared on the cover of Like a Virgin, clad in a white lace wedding dress, her body bedecked with rubber bangles and crucifix earrings, the youth of America (make that the world) went nuts for her ragged, good-girl-gone-bad style—a teen craze that reached fever pitch when Madge flashed her garters on stage at the first MTV Music Video Awards in 1984. The woman behind Madonna’s Like a Virgin look was Maripol, a French-born photographer, stylist, art director and designer who moved to New York at the age of 19 in 1976, subsequently landing a job as the art director of the Fiorucci store on 59th Street. Like Madonna, Maripol was a luminary of New York’s underground scene, with friends including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Debbie Harry, among other Mudd Club regulars. Maripol was also the producer of urban fairytale Downtown ’81 (written by Glenn O'Brien and directed by Edo Bertoglio) and, after launching Madonna in a flurry of lace and sex (and founding her own company, Maripolitan Popular Objects Ltd, to disseminate her innovative rubber jewelry and Madonna tour merchandise), she went on to work on videos for Cher, Elton John and D’Angelo. Fresh from her latest project, a capsule collection of tees and rubber accessories for Marc by Marc Jacobs (released this spring to coincide with the resurgence of all things 80s in the fashion world), she releases Maripol: Little Red Riding Hood. The book, published this month by Damiani, collects her photographs, sketchbooks and inspirational material for the first time. To celebrate, we gave Maripol a call—for her thoughts on Lady Gaga and Britney.

Source: NOWNESS.

Maripol: Little Red Riding Hood
Conversation with Marc Jacobs. Text by Maripol.
Published by Damiani

When Madonna's Like a Virgin came out in 1984, it wasn't just the songs that made a splash, it was her look. That crucifix jewelry! Those earrings! Those black rubber bracelets! The accessories that gave Madonna her stylistic edge and sparked millions of prepubescent copycats across the globe were the brainchild of Maripol, a designer and stylist who was working at the time as the art director of the Fiorucci store. "I was attracted by objects and I liked to use them by taking away their original meaning," Maripol has said. "I would see something I liked and I'd say, 'That would be great as an earring.'" An habitué of the same New York dance clubs as the singer, Maripol styled Madonna at the outset of the Material Girl's career, both casually and also officially, on the Like a Virgin album cover, ensuring the singer an eternal spot in the pantheon of pop style icons. "I was already making the rubber jewelry and I was already making the crosses because of my love for the punks," she said. "So it was perfect for her." Now Maripol, who has just launched a new line of colorful, affordable accessories for Marc Jacobs, opens up her scrapbooks of drawings, designs, photography and writing to create a book that captures her personality as an artist, beginning with her childhood and her arrival in New York as a 19-year-old art school student.
Maripol moved to New York from France in 1976, where she became a part of the New York clubbing and music scene, styling Madonna and working on films such as Downtown 81 (starring Jean-Michel Basquiat and Deborah Harry). In the mid-1980s, she opened her own boutique, Maripolitan, in the NoHo area of New York. Maripol has also been art director on music videos for Cher, D'Angelo and Elton John, among others.

"We grew up in a world where it was ok to exchange ideas with other people, and it wasn’t so rigid, and it's like what you said about the new wave and punk movement, it was much more raw and tougher and it was about a bunch of people who had something to say. It wasn't so boxed in and so pre-fabricated. It was something very organic and cool and very hard, you know, which is great."
Marc Jacobs in conversation with Maripol, excerpted from Little Red Riding Hood.

BOOKS IN THE MEDIA
Eleanor Strehl | Date: 9/16/2010
Maripol: Little Red Riding Hood
Damiani -- the talked-about Italian publisher -- in a tribute to Maripol with Maripol: Little Red Riding Hood.
Maripol fans will be excited to find an interview with the photographer, designer and artist in the October issue of W. See below for the piece, illustrated with images from her new book.

Source: Artbook.

Maripol's book ''Little Red Riding Hood''


Maripol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, photographed by Edo Bertoglio.


Interview with Maripol the photographer, designer and artist in the October issue of "W" magazine illustrated with images from her new book.