Antoine Bootz, Kevin Walz, Ralph Pucci & Ruben Toledo

Ruben Toledo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1960 and moved to New York with his family as a child. He is a painter, sculptor, illustrator, reporter and fashion chronicler, and renowned for his surrealist wit. The continuous, sudden changes of fashion and the body language of style are two constant themes of his work, which is inspired by a Latin flavor, but which is also strictly connected with American pop culture. He is the author of the famous Style Dictionary, a collection of unforgettable images, which under the form of drawings and watercolors, meld fashion at its most ephemeral with style at its most abiding. His decades-long collaboration with Ralph began when Toledo first designed a mannequin for PUCCI. The partnership continues, most notably including hand-painted surreal and whimsical images in limited edition on RALPH PUCCI Furniture which was called “historic” by New York Magazine design editor Wendy Goodman. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 1988.

Antoine Bootz’s talents earned him simultaneous success in both fine art and commercial photography worlds. He has enjoyed many solo and group shows of his photography in his native Paris and New York City, his adoptive home. He has also worked on advertising campaigns and editorial projects with Calvin Klein, House & Garden, La Redoute and many others. Bootz has photographed for Ralph Pucci for over 20 years, including the photography for the RALPH PUCCI books, Show and Wall.

Kevin Walz is an artist and designer who lives and works in New York. He studied Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute and the New York Studio School. Walz’s furniture designs begin with fine natural materials, such as hardwoods, cork, glass, and metals, which are then combined with resins, carbon fiber and new technologies and processes to allow for thin profiles, fluid forms, and tactile, resilient surfaces. Walz is the recipient of the Rome Prize and is in the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame. His art and designs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in North America and Europe. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 2003.