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F.O.F.F.
A result of a fashion design parody gone terribly wrong in 2007, the creatures that are known today as F.O.F.F. are an extremely rare species. Currently In the world today only 300 specimens exist and are divided between the following 3 sub species; domestic F.O.F.F., wild F.O.F.F. & military F.O.F.F. Further down the genetic line, each of these sub species, in their turn, are divided into families and in each of these families F.O.F.F. members are numbering from a handful of siblings to a couple of dozens of F.O.F.F. individuals.
The abbreviation F.O.F.F. itself stands for Fashion, Originality, Friendship & Fun, though most F.O.F.F. scholars insist that this abbreviation has something to do with somebody else’s sausage (or actually mean that literally). Either way, a F.O.F.F. by definition is an abstract haute couture pocket doll/action figure and a most trust worthy travelling companion.
From their accessories & passports to their packaging & photography the F.O.F.F. are hand made and personally handled by David Luxembourg - creator of the concept. As proof of originality and authenticity all F.O.F.F. come with their own Nation of F.O.F.F. passport and are wrapped with the ‘Authentic F.O.F.F.’ seal around their bellies, displaying their series & serial numbers.
The Nation of F.O.F.F.
Nation of F.O.F.F. Citizenship and Passport
How to Interact with Your F.O.F.F.
How to Use Your Nation of F.O.F.F. Passport
Handling instructions
Foff Collection 2008-9
Foff Moments 2007
The Nation of F.O.F.F.
In 2008, after realizing how miniscule & small in numbers they were and eagerly wanting some sort of legitimacy & recognition as plushy life forms, the F.O.F.F. have decided to act under the international right of self determination and establish their own country - the ‘Peoples Republic of F.O.F.F.I.A.’ formally known as the nation of F.O.F.F.
Managing the Nation of F.O.F.F. is the Ministry of Stamps. This governmental authority is also the only governmental authority of the N.O.F. and is responsible for the registration of all existing F.O.F.F., the issuing of N.O.F. passports and the maintenance & publishing of the ‘National F.O.F.F. Gazette’- the official F.O.F.F. news paper.
Further on every once in a while (usually on a monthly- bi monthly basis) the national F.O.F.F. elections are held to determine which of all F.O.F.F. will be the next best F.O.F.F./ N.O.F. president. With a democratic & discrete voting procedure each F.O.F.F. may choose which of the 3 running candidates will have its support.
Nation of F.O.F.F. citizenship and passport:
The F.O.F.F. are your best friends all over the world, therefore and so that they could travel with you wherever you go all over the world, all F.O.F.F. are issued with their own Nation of F.O.F.F. passports.
Not only can they travel with you wherever you go, with their N.O.F. passports all F.O.F.F. citizens also become eligible voters and allowed to vote for national F.O.F.F. elections of the next best F.O.F.F./N.O.F. presidency.
Finally, from December 2008 the Nation of F.O.F.F. has opened its borders for new citizens of puppet, pet and human decent, thus granting anyone who has interest in becoming F.O.F.F. citizen their own N.O.F. passports and the right to vote for the national F.O.F.F. elections amongst other benefits.
How to interact with your F.O.F.F.:
When travelling with your F.O.F.F. it is the meaning that it will be carried in your square shaped jacket pocket with a horizontal opening at the top. From there your F.O.F.F. can perform its job and its duty as your best friend, your most trusted travelling companion and ultimately as an ice breaker and conversation item in awkward moments, socially dead parties, symposiums, conventions and other boring occasions.
Naturally if things get dicey each F.O.F.F., being also an action figure, is trained in the arts of Karate & Judo.
How to use your N.O.F. Passport
An F.O.F.F. is a person’s best friend all over the world. Carry your Pocket Doll action Figure and its passport where ever you go. Whenever visiting new country with your F.O.F.F., stick one of that country’s postal stamps in the passport then sign, or stamp the current date next to the postal stamp or on it.
Daring F.O.F.F. owners & passport holders may want to try their luck and have this passport stamped by post office clerks, passport/border controllers and naughty customs clerks for that extra authentic passport touch.
Handling instructions:
Handle with love and care, be friends with and dry clean only. Do not iron, do not eat, or feed to pets and kids, deep freeze to kill parasites and bacteria.
F.O.F.F. are not suitable to any kids under the age of 18 years.
F.O.F.F. Collection 2008-9/Foffzila fashion show DDW 08:
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A Brief History of the F.O.F.F.
First emerging out of the deep, creative, primordial soup of David Luxembourg’s minds in 2004, F.O.F.F. was a red comic-strip-note-book describing the inner interactions and social behavior functions of small nipple like creatures, who’s motto in life (and in paper) was ‘Nihilism? Modern? Why?!’. Although being unsure about the origin of their name, F.O.F.F., these nipple like creatures were actually quite very sure that it had something to do with somebody else’s sausage, or would mean literally ‘somebody else’s sausage’. Their hobbies included gazing at cardboard egg packages (containing 6 eggs) and Launching airborne hamsters from a specially modified bazooka, their favorite pet was the common garden snail, the Cornu aspersa, and their most prized possession, if haven’t guessed it already, was a sausage (not of their own, apparently stolen, then found in a tin can before being heroically salvaged by an innocent and caring F.O.F.F.).
In 2005/6 when David Luxembourg shifted his attention to fashion design, the F.O.F.F. were brutally ironed to death and from their flattened skin David drew inspiration for his conceptually experimental fashion collection ‘the Volution’. This collection which was formally composed of 15 outfits, all relating to one another and all together manifesting the ideas behind the evolution theory in design, had also a 16th outfit, a doll that David carried in his jacket’s pocket. This doll was the return from certain and terminal ‘death by ironing’ of the F.O.F.F. and Later on it became known as ‘James Dean’ (…first F.O.F.F. ever,) famous for its work as a photo model.
Although James Dean has retired from professional photo modeling in 2007 and moved to Amsterdam (where he spends his time watching the grachts and counting imaginary sheep), David Luxembourg continued to work with its (F)offsprings, Took care of a steady population growth, cultivated and bred them into various Pocket-Dolls-Action-Figures, the result of which can be seen today.