Mai Bag for Celine

Is Mai's first and last fashion project.

She designed democratic style shopping bag with controversial material baby kangaroo skin. To make one bag which looks just like shopping bag we had to kill two baby kangaroos in Australia which nobody but the people down there had to deal with. Kangaroo skins are thin and strong. She collaborated with French fashion house Celine for producing, marketing and distribution of the bag. They made special color edition of Gold, Silver and Bronze. Gold and Silver ones have natural looking artificial pattern design on surface by injecting silicon. She made a video art project that she styled herself in Celine clothes and walked around in a desert in Colome, south of Argentine, having her boyfriend of the time shooting it. Also made news paper "The Mai Ueda Times" instead of press release and did performance around the world to promote the bag in 2006. One of a performance which was a part of Display Esthetic by Item Idem took a place in a show window of Celine Omotesando Tokyo boutique. The performance was her simply hanging out in the show window as if she is at home in her room, sometimes posing in glamour way, sometimes inviting her friends for picnic.

It was an experiment on beauty, luxury and practicality.