Lara Davis & Xavier Auty
Meet the owners
Wieden + Kennedy
The&Partnership
School of Communication Arts 2022-2023
With the right makeup and stilettos, any brand can fetch a good price on the street.
Lara and Xavier joined forces to make brands as sexy as they can be—then sell them ruthlessly to the highest bidder.
Lara
After learning Old English for 13% of her life, she now makes badges filled with soil and exhibition posters about Voodoo Dolls.
Before ad school she co-founded a humble collective, Artists for Armageddon, and had some poetry published. Don't buy it on Amazon.
Xavier
Hand reared in Devon.
Dabbles in Magic the Gathering and birdwatching.
Has had more jobs than hot dinners.
(16 jobs vs. 17 hot dinners—hoping
for the 18th any day now).
To get a full scholarship at the SCA, he
invented a new product:
And before ad school he made graphic novels for his friends.
