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Johny Dar

Johny Dar is an artist and designer pioneering an original form of expression through art, fashion, multimedia and music. His groundbreaking work delivers a new renaissance of experience to a global audience, and has earned him international acclaim across a wide range of media and industries.

Johny Dar was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1978. Growing up, he nurtured dreams of becoming a filmmaker, convinced from an early age that he had a vision to share. Discovering his talent for design, he moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1997 to study fashion, launched his first fashion label in 1999, and has been producing timeless collections ever since. But he turned his back upon his thriving career in 2002, leaving LA to seek new experiences and explore the world. For years he travelled, studying different cultures and traditions, striving to break away from the known and nurture his talent and creative expression in new ways. During his journey Dar developed his unique artistic style, which he sees as the fruit of his exploration and culmination of his experience, and which forms the heart of his work in every medium he engages.

Returning to the fashion industry after his hiatus, he founded the Johny Dar brand as a true lifestyle brand, offering a global audience a fresh perspective on the possibilities of life through original experiences in art, fashion, music, multimedia and design. His passion for originality is evident in every aspect of his work, and his signature style as outstanding in his paintings as his light installations, prints, couture, illustration, sportswear and music. In recent years Johny Dar has been featured internationally in numerous publications including Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, Le Monde, Die Zeit, New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, Fault, Aesthetica, Tatler, and Flair among others.

Johny himself is increasingly recognised as an icon of realising dreams, and a true example of someone living out their dream, inspiring people who want to participate in that dream, through the brand that houses it. This is the core brand following (especially in the art world) - people who are inspired to realise dreams - and to share Johny`s dream - a dream that invites and empowers the world at large to participating inspiring, expansive creative experiences. In each artistic medium and industry, Johny Dar`s distinctive form of artistry and creative innovation offers refreshing, original expressions and new perspectives upon life.