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Silk scarves built from public-domain archival imagery, made to order in editions of 100. Designed in New York by Paul Morris—a magazine art director, and the fourth generation of his family to make pictures.
Featured in Elle Decor · 6sqft
Work placed in private New York homes photographed for Architectural Digest and The Wall Street Journal
The studio
Leeloo + Zohan is a silk scarf studio in New York, designed by artist Paul Morris. Each design is built from original photography, archival imagery, and graphic design, printed on silk habotai and made to order in an edition of 100. When an edition reaches 100, the design retires.
The designer
Paul Morris (Parsons, 1997) is the fourth generation of his family to make pictures: a great-grandfather who photographed for G. W. Pach from 1898, a grandfather whose 1942 Chesterfield portraits U. S. Camera called America’s most effective service advertising, and his father’s 1959 Nikon F to learn on. He shoots a 2015 Sony A7R II today. He spent more than a decade in New York magazine art departments. Senior designer on the editorial side of George. Promotion designer at The New Yorker. Design director at Rolling Stone, The Advocate, and Departures. Freelance art director for Vogue, Allure, and InStyle. Later a creative director at Maui Nō Ka ʻOi Magazine. Leeloo + Zohan came next, where he composes archival material onto silk habotai, made to order in editions of 100.
Fast facts
| Product | Silk scarves, 100% silk habotai, rolled hem |
|---|---|
| Sizes & prices | 26″ $100 · 36″ $160 · 50″ $220 |
| Production | Made to order, edition of 100, retires at 100. No inventory, no markdowns. |
| Delivery | Free US shipping · free 30-day returns · delivers within 10–14 business days · US only |
| Designed | New York City |
| Online | leeloozohan.com · Instagram @leeloozohan |
| Press contact | Paul Morris · info@leeloozohan.com |
Selected work
Sea-horse, New York Aquarium
Le Chat Zohan
American Folk Art, Blush
Manhattan Towers, Lilac
Grand Central Terminal
Statue of Liberty, Mosaic
Sea-horse, New York Aquarium is composed from a 1912 “Sea-Horse, New York Aquarium” postcard (Detroit Publishing Co.), public domain, courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Story angles
- Design & craft. What a 1990s magazine art department turned into—the George-to-silk arc, told by one of the people still doing the work.
- New York & culture. George’s thesis was politics as fashion; a designer from that room now simply makes the fashion. Timely through the 2026 Emmys.
- Gifts & design guides. A considered New York gift—the object, its archival source, made to order with nothing overproduced.
Images
The founder portrait and product images on this page are cleared for editorial use with credit to Leeloo + Zohan. Print-resolution artwork files are available on request—info@leeloozohan.com.
Press contact. Paul Morris · info@leeloozohan.com · leeloozohan.com · @leeloozohan