Pop Art Princess ~ Lisa Perry

Italian luxury brand, Borbonese

 A reader shared these wonderful bags with me after reading my blog story about Roy Lichtenstein and Miu Miu.  The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in collaboration with the Italian luxury brand Borbonese, released a limited edition collection based on Roy's colorful art.  They are the piece de resistance to any pop art outfit.  The small bag collection is sold exclusively thru the Lisa Perry stores.  This requires a more in depth conversation about Lisa Perry and her mod life styled.

Lisa gravitated towards the likes of Pierre Cardin, Courreges, and Rudy Genrich.  Anything mod from the 1960's became her passion.   Lisa lives and sells that mod aesthetic she fell in love with on a trip to Paris so many years ago.  She is addicted to color and couture.  Her lifestyle stores sell the pop art shift dresses she began designing after graduating from FIT instead of going into the family textile business.  She also sells clothing with a very "focused DNA" as Lisa calls it; exclusive lines she has picked up like French tee shirts and the handbags above.  She has an extensive vintage couture collection from the 60's and 70's, and has added some housewares, accessories, and bedding to her eponymous stores.

A peek at the 2nd floor loft space above the Madison Avenue store.  It's set up like an apartment ~ Lisa's goal is for someone to walk in to any of her spaces and say, "WOW, this is so fun!"  I would say she succeeded!

She doesn't just sell the dream, Lisa lives it, and by the looks of her Hamptons house, lives it well.  She loves a backdrop of white with pops of different colors in each room.  "Anything that screams POP makes me happy."  You can't not be happy in this home, and she has two more like it.  One in New York City and a third in Palm Beach.

I adore how the tile under the table mimics the look of the pool, which is quite close.  I wonder, "How many people have fallen in?"

Lisa is an art collector as well.  Between the pool and the ocean is a Robert Indiana mosaic made into a table and a Gary Hume snowman sculpture by the tree.

ph: Veranda, Architechnophilja, examiner.com

Pop Art Crossover

Interior with Skyline

I came across Miu Miu's cruise collection and all I could think was it looked like the models walked out of a Roy Lichtenstein painting.  The pop art master created his paintings using his signature lines and dots in order to transform banal objects and see beauty in all things.  His cartoony comic book style was/is a commercial success.  Though he was called a copyist, I say he was an inspirationalist.

Miuccia Prada, perhaps inspired by Lichtenstein, used hearts, apples and dots in much the same way to create a similar pop art vibe.   When her punchy prints were paired with solids, I like the happy results but when the prints are worn together it seems kitschy, ironically, more like the now iconic cartoons Mr. Lichtenstein is best known for.

The Den

I have to admit I wasn't aware of Roy's extensive interiors portfolio.  Like his Nude series, they weren't as commercially successful.  Of course he is best known for his DC comic book, pulp fiction like images.

Interior with Red Wall

Dots are certainly a recurring image in fashion every couple of years.  Roy Lichtenstein created the use of the Benday dot.  It is like an optical illusion where dots placed properly create shading or a secondary color.  It was an inexpensive way, at the time, to print advertisements and comics. 

Interior with T' aime

It is hard to see but there are dots within the hearts and apples.

Interior with Waterlilies

BAM, POP, WHAAM