Fafi
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Fafi is a French artist born and raised in Toulouse France.
Fafi's presence was first witnessed on her hometown walls in as a grafitti artist in 1994, painting sexy, funny, and sometimes aggressive girl characters.
Later Sony would ask her to design a six-character toy set for the Time Capsules collection. Other successful figurines would follow, as well as expositions and collaborations with Colette, Adidas, LeSportSac, Coca-Cola, M.A.C cosmetics and press stories in the most prestigious magazines (ie. Vogue, Elle, The Face, XLR8R, Yen etc...). The animation world started also propelled her vision in Mark Ronson video featuring a Fafi-ed Lily Allen.
She has published the books Girls Rock(2003) and Love and Fafiness (2006).
