Jimmy Choo teams up with Rob Pruitt
UK-based footwear designer Jimmy Choo has teamed up with US-born artist Rob Pruitt, best known for his glitter panda paintings and the Guggenheim Art Awards, to develop a creative line of shoes, handbags and leathergoods.
Mr Choo has worked in the past with contemporary artists and photographers such as Nan Goldin, Marilyn Minter and Richard Phillips. The newly collaborated line with Pruitt will be part of the designer’s 2013 Cruise collection.
The line will incorporate elements from artist and designer, yielding something “very collectible and uniquely beautiful.”
Mr Pruitt gained the attentions of the art world in the late eighties with his creative, quirky, pop art works. Creative directors at Jimmy Choo saw themselves through his colourful works: “We were captivated by Pruitt's energy, his computer screen use of colour and the festive exuberance of his prints and materials; there were elements in his work that reminded us in subtle ways of the Jimmy Choo design iconography”.
