Cutting Edge: Lucas Lecacheur’s Violent Eye and “Perfect Designs”

It takes a lot to raise eyebrows around surfboard factories—there are plenty of creatures and characters lurking around the industrial enclaves where shapers and laminators mow foam and grind fiberglass. 

But a rockabilly Frenchman walking around the Waialua Sugar Mill in a skin tight wife beater, jorts, and thigh-high black cowboy boots—well, let’s just say you’re gonna draw some attention. 

Lucas Lecacheur—known worldwide these days by Perfect Designs—rolled through Hawaii last year...