"We were very happy to have you both and it was quite strange to us when you left yesterday, now you are part of PS staff. Everybody love your work and hope to do some more in the future."

Michele,Mark and the Milan team, Paul Smith Showroom Milan.

CLIENT: Paul Smith
LOCATION: Milan, Florence & Tokyo.
COMPLETION: work between 2005 to 2008
DISCIPLINE: Display Graphics, Textile Print, Packaging, Window Display, Workshop and Murals.

ABOUT:
Working with a strong fashion brand involves close relationship with the fashion designers, respecting colours, patterns and styles for the season. The work is to create strong, striking visuals where colours and composition is key. It is important to merge with the values Paul Smith has built; classic with a twist.

It is exciting to get involved in diverse use of illustration and see our work applied in detail on textiles to grander work handpainted on 20 by 5 meter canvas.

FROM THE PRESS:
"Design duo Gilles & Cecilie specialise in making even the most ordinary, boring wall look handsome with their mural painting skills - something Paul Smith is also a dab hand at doing for people, with his clothes. So the perfect pairing - and our favourite fashion/ illustration collaboration - of 2006 is the work Gilles & Cecilie did for Mr Smith`s stores this year. Gilles & Cecilie applied their eye for colour and their exuberant illustrative aesthetic to Paul Smith interiors, window displays and even the streets surrounding the stores across the world."

Grafik Pick of the Year 2006, Grafik Magazine no: 147.