BOY GEORGE WEARING BOY LONDON STEPHANE RAYNOR SCREEN PRINT

Extremely rare opportunity to purchase this limited edition screen print of Boy George wearing BOY LONDON printed in close collaboration with BOY LONDON founder Stephane Raynor.

The original photograph used for the print was taken from Stephane’s personal archive and was produced as part of his intended ARTBOY Print project in the year leading up to Stephane’s passing in 2021.

The print is from an original edition of 50 but only a few have now been released for sale.

The piece is an acrylic, hand pulled screen print of 3 layers, baby pink ground colour, black halftone image with gold text.

It is printed on 350gsm archival paper and is signed & numbered by Stephane.

The print measures 70cmX50cm

This is one of three different colour way editions of the image that were produced with Stephane, which are also available from my other listings.

I worked very closely with Stephane over the course of the two years up until his passing, sorting and curating pieces from his extensive archive and these prints are just some of the results of this partnership.

Some back ground to Stephane Raynor.

Stephane was the unrecognised face behind punk, new romantics & acid house. In the early 1970’s Stephane sold original 50's clothing from the back of his car to Malcom Mclaren, at the site for his first shop, 'Let It Rock’. His Legendary style outlet 'Acme Attractions' was his original concept, and as well as employing now recognised film maker and DJ Don Letts and Jeanette Lee ( later of PIL ) now MD of Rough Trade. In 1976 he started BOY. This is where Billy Idol worked. This was "le Punk Rock" - not designer but real. In 1978 there was PX Boutique. This is where Stephane advised his employee, Steve Strange to take over local wine bar BLITZ for a regular night where the PX devotees, now called New Romantics and later to be known as Blitz Kids could mingle. In 1980 it was back to BOY LONDON, and Steph took with him Boy George, and Jeremy Healy from Haysi Fantaysi. Stephane took his already established, well known label and launched it into the most infamous, global urban label ever. Stephane art-directed and styled some of the most innovative mail order catalogues the world had seen, featuring top models and celebrities side by side.

Still remaining true to himself and his vision his last venture which these prints were part of was in producing limited lines of original BOY pieces. I worked very closely with Stephane over the course of the two years up until his passing, sorting and curating pieces from his extensive archive and these prints are just some of the results of this partnership.