100% Space Molly Jean-Michel Basquiat

Kenny Wong is a Hong Kong-based designer, illustrator, and toy artist best known for creating Molly, one of the most iconic characters in the designer toy scene. His work blends elements of nostalgia, fashion, and whimsy, often featuring doll-like figures with oversized eyes and expressive, melancholic expressions. His Most Famous Character – Molly is a little girl with a signature pout, large round eyes, and a curious attitude. She was inspired by a real child Wong met at an art exhibition. Wong’s Molly blind box series, produced in partnership with POP MART, has become one of the most successful collectible toy lines, featuring countless themed variations of the character. Beyond Molly, Wong has designed other characters and art toys, often released in limited-edition vinyl and sofubi formats. He has collaborated with brands like Disney, Coca-Cola, and Medicom Toy, as well as artists in the global designer toy community. Kenny Wong’s work has become a cornerstone of Asian designer toys, appealing to art collectors, fashion lovers, and toy enthusiasts who appreciate high-quality craftsmanship and unique storytelling in collectible form. Pop Mart is a Chinese toy company that sells collectible designer toys. The company is known for its "blind box" packaging, which doesn't reveal the toys inside. Pop Mart is a leader in the designer toy market and has been credited with creating the market for designer toys in China. Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. By the 1980s, his neo-expressionist paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.