BillyBoy*, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

BillyBoy*

artist and fashion designer

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1960

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Profession: historian, artist, socialite, fashion designer

Nationality: United States, Switzerland, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About BillyBoy*

  • BillyBoy* (born 10 March 1960) is an artist, socialite and fashion designer who was a muse of Andy Warhol.
  • Born in Vienna, he was adopted by a Russian couple and moved to New York City when he was four. In 1979 BillyBoy* began to design and manufacture costume jewellery under the label Surreal Bijoux in Paris. A bracelet made by BillyBoy* and owned by Elizabeth Taylor was sold at auction in 2011 for $6,875.BillyBoy* had a collection of over 11,000 Barbie dolls and 3,000 Ken dolls, and in 1987 authored the book Barbie: Her Life and Times.
  • During 1984–1990 Mattel sponsored two tours called Le nouveau théâtre de la mode (New Theatre of Fashion) curated by BillyBoy*.
  • Like the original 1945-Théâtre de la Mode the exhibitions consisted of hundreds of dolls—in this case Barbie dolls—wearing miniature outfits made by Yves Saint Laurent and other prominent fashion designers.
  • The exhibition toured France on board a TGV-train entitled Le Train magique des jouets Mattel..
  • BillyBoy* designed two Barbie dolls for Mattel working as a designer and consultant, "Le Nouveau Théâtre de la mode" in 1984 and "Feelin' Groovy" in 1986.
  • After finishing working with Mattel, BillyBoy* formed the "BillyBoy* Toys" company, and in 1989 BillyBoy* and his partner released the Mdvanii fashion doll. Warhol's last work Barbie, Portrait of BillyBoy* was a painting of BillyBoy* depicted as a Barbie Doll and was presented to BillyBoy* in New York on 10 February 1986.
  • The painting was gifted to BillyBoy* and hung in his living room.
  • In 2014 the painting sold at the auction house Christie's for ÂŁ722,500 ($1,161,780).
  • A second version of Warhol's painting, this time with an orange-red background instead of blue, was created for and purchased by Mattel.In 1978 or 1979 BillyBoy* moved to Paris, where later his shop would be at 6 Rue de la Paix, Paris.
  • In 1993 BillyBoy* and his partner Jean Pierre Lestrade ("Lala") moved to Trouville-sur-Mer in France, then in 1997 to Switzerland, and finally in 2011 to DelĂ©mont, the capital of the Canton of Jura and near Basel.
  • On 6 February 2012 BillyBoy* and Jean Pierre Lestrade married at the L’HĂ´tel de Ville in DĂ©lĂ©mont.On 13 February 1998 BillyBoy* and Lestrade founded the Fondation Tanagra non-profit in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
  • In 2012 the website of the Foundation was updated to reflect the creation of a future museum in DelĂ©mont.He was a close friend of the designer Alexander McQueen.

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