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A poster for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988
Now, nearly 35 years after the initial request, the elusive Kenzo prints have finally come to fruit—quite literally. Leon and Lim’s fall 2012 collection featured punchy grape and strawberry patterns created by Gatti, who was inspired by 19th-century botanical prints. With the recent release of Gatti’s monograph and a retrospective of his work at the Sívori museum in Buenos Aires this fall, the timing couldn’t be more fitting. “It’s like karma,” he says. “It closed a circle.”
