The attention and controversy seeking Sachs is a contemporary artist best known for his Chanel-branded guillotine and Prada-branded toilet.

Raised in preppy Westport, Bennington grad Sachs worked for Frank Gehry before his big break in 1994, when his nativity scene for Barneys Christmas windows—in which Hello Kitty played Jesus and Madonna was the Virgin Mary—launched a massive public outcry. He's since made more art (and headlines) with pieces riffing on consumer culture, like an Hermès McDonald's cup and a Chanel guillotine. In 1999, journalists spilled gallons of ink about Sachs' Prada Death Camp, a miniature recreation of a concentration camp made out of a Prada hatbox. Sachs's attention-courting shtick pays handsomely. To wit: He sold his 2001 work Mop Bucket and Ringer, a sculpture of, well, a mop and bucket, for $30,000 at the Armory Show in 2002.

In what smelled suspiciously like a publicity stunt, Sachs' 1999 work Ace Boone Coon earned his dealer Mary Boone a night in the clink for unlawful distribution of ammunition and possession of unlawful weapons. The installation featured a cabinet full of home-made handguns and a Alvar Aalto glass vase containing live bullets—which guests were encouraged to take home in faux-Hermès bags. [Image via Getty]