John Wesley is the person responsible for the illustrations covering the Miu Miu S/S 10 collection. I had never heard of him but after a little internet research I’ve got to say I think his work’s pretty cool. I like the simple color schemes, the sign-like flatness and the juxtaposition of the child like motifs and the ‘adult’ scenes.

He’s been on the scene since the 60’s and although he was then classified as a Pop artist and lately as a minimalist, Wesley himself considers his work to be aligned more closely with Surrealism. He has a retrospective at New York’s MOMA in 2000 who described his work as “mixing images of traditional emblems, historical figures, comic book personalities, animals, sexy women, athletes and showgirls into surreal daydreams, prompting the viewer to rejoin her own private dream-world.”

He just had a big show at the Venice Biennale sponsored by, who else, the Fondazione Prada07, so that explains the Miu Miu collection then.