In the mid-1980s, André Heller began to recruit artists for his project Luna Luna, an amusement park designed by the "most important artists of the period. Just ahead of Watanabe in Japan, Études launched a capsule collection featuring images by Basquiat for AW22. Highlights include a carousel designed and painted by Keith Haring, a ferris wheel adorned with colossal imagery from Jean-Michel Basquiat, and a haunting Mechanical Theatre by Jim Whiting. One such project is a Palace of the Winds, where flatulence was incorporated into classical music through live performances.

We exist in live events, we exist in culture, we understand the art world and being artist-friendly. The exhibition had been expected to travel to the Netherlands later in 1987 and then the United States in 1988.It’s ultimately subjective at the end of the day, and the variety on offer means that the widest range of tastes is still catered to. Giving access to rare artworks that have not been widely viewed in 35 years, and accompanying the relaunch of Luna Luna in 2023, this book is being published for the first time in English with an updated preface. In the summer of 1987, the world’s first art amusement park opened in a lush, green park outside Hamburg, Germany.

People are still fascinated by the work because it signifies a creative time that can never be repeated,” says lighting designer Lee Broom, who has a leather jacket handpainted by Haring hanging in his TriBeCa penthouse. Likewise, we wouldn’t give Uniqlo a safe-sex image of two people putting their hands on each other’s dicks, because it’s not the right audience.Seeing the work still appear on clothing, now handled by the licensing company Artestar (which also handles the Mapplethorpe and Basquiat estates), is an extension of Haring’s performance. For anyone who lived through the era, seeing both Watanabe and Études mix disparate visual elements linked by a social scene (the Mudd Club, one of Haring’s locals, was a key part of it) suggests naive nostalgia and a longing for the authenticity of a long-vanished counterculture. Instead of traveling the world, these incredible pieces of art were shuttered away for over three decades. On top of directing innovative shows, theatre plays, circuses, films and operas he has also designed fire spectacles, labyrinths, and museums. In 1987, Heller released book Luna Luna, published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in Munich, which features all of the attractions.