Why James Merry drops the mask

For more than two years now, the mask has been talked about a lot, and it's not for going to the ball.

But this piece of protective tissue paper pales in comparison to those of an ingenious creator who is bringing this famous Venice carnival pageantry up to date.

It is indeed to James Merry that we owe the facial creations intended for Björk or Tilda Swinton, discovered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, masked in her own way.

Sovereign and mysterious.

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Proud and disturbing.

James Merry's mind-blowing designs make anyone who wears them look like an alien fairy or king.

This Englishman is especially famous for his permanent collaboration with the one who is his precious friend and inspiration, the supernatural Björk.

Co-creative director of this Icelandic icon, Merry lives and works in a small house-studio on the edge of a lake, fifteen minutes from Reykjavík.

There, in a desert landscape surrounded by a land…

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