MAC Cosmetics is coming out with a new line of products imprinted with the French graffiti artist Fafi's signature tags and drawings. Her sketches of gamine girls in adorable, dominatrix-like outfits cover sticks of lipstick, makeup bags, eyeshadow palettes and lip glosses. It's brilliant -- we all want cute things and we all love MAC, so it's a match made in heaven!
But I worry that this will be Fafi's final push into the mainstream -- I've already had to suffer through her limited-to-Japan-and-France clothing line and her illustrated covers of XLR8R, and I want her all to myself! We've all seen Shepard Fairey's downward spiral with his graffiti/propaganda empire, Obey...he's now doing corporate work for companies like BMW. The idea that Fafi's drawings will be seen by teenage girls in malls across America really disgusts me, but I guess that's not stopping me from forking $45 over for eyeshadow at the MAC counter.
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It saddens me that mallrats across America won't even know who Fafi is. Still, I love Fafi and MAC, and I'm totally excited for this collection!
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