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Paul Smith - Pandamonium 1

Cheerful Stripy Panda Paul Smith

Paul Smith

Cheerful Stripy Panda
Panda, paint
Sold

Smith has created a fun, colourful and bright panda using his multi-stripe, which he intends will attract people’s attention and make them think about the natural world in a positive way.

“These iconic pandas have been helping to raise awareness for a number of years … I felt it would be great to be involved in reviving them. I hope the auction will not only raise much-needed funds for WWF but also understanding of the need to preserve our planet.”

SORRY, THIS WORK HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLD

Paul Smith

Paul Smith is Britain’s most successful fashion designer and retailer. His style combines classic menswear with unusual modern interventions – which he calls ‘classic with a twist’. Typically he enlivens traditional shirts and suits with stripes and colours that unexpectedly deviate from conventional patterns.

Paul Smith was born in 1947, in Nottingham, England. He wanted to become a professional cycle racer but an accident thwarted that career. In 1969, Smith met Pauline Denyer, who studied fashion design at the Royal College of Art. She became his partner and a major influence on his career in the fashion business. He opened a tiny shop in Nottingham in 1970 and by 1976 he showed his first menswear collection in Paris under the Paul Smith label. Over some 35 years his retail empire has grown to encompass almost every kind of fashion product, marketed over three continents.

In 1991 Paul Smith received a British Designer for Industry Award and in 1995 he won the Queen’s Award for Export. In 1997 he was invited to join the UK government’s Creative Industries Taskforce, and in 2000 he received a Knighthood. In 2007 Paul Smith was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Selected exhibitions
2009 Salone del Mobile Milano, Villa Reale, Milan
2009 Super Contemporary. Design Museum, London
1995 Paul Smith, True Brit (25 years retrospective). Design Museum, London.
Touring to Glasgow and Nottingham in 1996-97, and to Tokyo, Kobe and
Fukuoka in 1998

Designer Paul Smith has transformed this panda box to reflect his iconic multi-coloured branding

The auction

The pieces were auctioned on 12 October 2009 at Selfridges, Oxford Street, London to raise funds for WWF.

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