ALEX MERRY and GUCCI
British citizen, lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire, belongs to a family of artists, we can say that she is an illustrator, but she is not just an illustrator. Graduated from the University of the West of England with a first-class BA hons degree in Illustration. Collaborates with Gucci where she was called in by Alessandro Michelle to collaborate with him in the firm, where she apparently has creative freedom, has hand painted Gucci campaigns, and we see her works from large murals in the street to printed on brand garments; has made the murals that adorn, in a sensory journey, the area of the corridors of the Gucci Garden, in Florence, a place of extravagant luxury, in the same Palazzo della Mercanzzia that also hosts the Gucci Museum
Her mother and sister are painters and sculptors, and her brother James Merry is Björk’s personal embroiderer.
Words: Jo García Garrido