Kiki De Montparnasse x Robert Mapplethorpe

Available on the kikidm.com website, the Minou Blanc Boxer Pant, $450 (bottom left); and the Femme Forte Silk Top, $495 (top right).

Kiki de Montparnasse announced in late June a 22 piece collection of lingerie and other items that include photographic images by Robert Mapplethorpe.

“Designed in Kiki De Montparnasse’s New York atelier and available exclusively on kikidm.com, the collection includes bondage-inspired leather lingerie as well as silk loungewear, soft furnishings, and items of pleasure adorned with Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs of male and female bodies, flowers, and other iconic images.” Additional retail outlets may be announced in the future.

Lingerie prices in the collection range from the Mon Amour Silk Boxer for $295; to the Minou Blanc Boxer Pant at $450; to the Femme Forte Silk Top at $495; to the Bondage Panty at $615; and the Bondage Bra at $695. The controversial artist  died in 1989, and the collection “was created in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and Artestar, a global licensing agency and creative consultancy.”

Alexa Cahill, global president of Kiki de Montparnasse,  explained: “This partnership is an opportunity to connect two iconic legacies for the first time. Our namesake muse, Mademoiselle Kiki de Montparnasse, was a talented multi-hyphenate known for her self-confidence as a sexually liberated woman during the 1920s when many women faced societal sexual repression. Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography celebrated and memorialized his own sexual identity and subverted traditional gender roles in the 1980s when gay communities were under attack. During our intensive design process, we poured over biographies, photographs, quotes, and unique works of art to find astonishing synergies between the two. This covetable collection will delight art and fashion lovers and celebrate Mapplethorpe’s and Kiki’s role in bringing important issues to the forefront that are still relevant to this day.”