• Kidult Hits Hermes Paris Store
  • Posted 8 months ago by Jack Lowe · Art & Design · news · 3766 Views

  • Having already hit a number of high profile stores including Supreme, Kenzo, Agnès b, YSL, and colette, the Paris-born graffiti artist Kidult has struck again. Supposedly fueled by protest and adrenaline, Kidult is back on his home turf, this time vandalizing the store front of Hermès on Rue de Sevres with his trademark paint-filled extinguisher, painting the word "LOVE" across the facade in gigantic mint green letters. Is this truly a combination of painting and poetry as Kidult says, or is it just mindless vandalism?

    • I think that true art can be found anywhere if you just look good enough. I love taking photos in old idustrial plants etc. www.sanderman.se
    • Everyday art
    • 05 October 11
    • In a world where greed rules supreme and our markets are on a long way down, he is our dark knight, out on a the street in the night looking into these windows at things that give peoples lives pathetic meaning and a way for the world to know they are "better". Why would he try to make his tags beautiful? Why would he want in any way to help the images of the stores he marks? Art is so much more than expectations and beauty.
    • camille
    • 21 September 11
    • It is supposed to be vandalism!
    • Think
    • 16 September 11
    • it's the greatest of arts, poetry
    • capcana
    • 14 September 11
    • lame. no voice, no brains, no personality... it's just really crappy lame shit.
    • xela
    • 12 September 11
    • @zimbadaboom he's supposedly on a mission to attack high end stores for exploiting graffiti to sell product... he used to write his name, now he no longer has to leave his name because his own self promo is doing so well... definitely a two way thing
    • neil
    • 12 September 11
    • does this guy realise that in graffiti each time you catch a tag you dont have to make a feature length film
    • that nigga
    • 12 September 11
    • He'll probably end up getting paid by one of these luxury brands he's bombed to design some prints
    • Hugh
    • 09 September 11
    • It does look really shit, but Hermes should keep it there ^_^ in yo FACE Kidult. ha.
    • Loll
    • 08 September 11
    • it looks to me like a publicity stunt, a way to stand out from the others who paint trains. reminds me of Banksy in the way to reach the fame --->BANKable hypocriSY !
    • zimbadaboom
    • 08 September 11
    • I've seen graffiti art, political art, combinations of both and so much more, but I have to say I'm finding it hard to find any artistic merit in this act. Is it just pure attention seeking, vandalism or a sign of someone who began with a valid concept but got lost in their own hype!???
    • Helena
    • 08 September 11
    • Its really shit but I like it
    • Hugh
    • 08 September 11
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