Parallel Genesis

1. Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc, 1930
2. Roy Lichtenstein Laocoon, 1988  

When I saw the Lichtenstein exhibition in London, I felt a moment of 'enlightment'. When an expressive brush stroke and a fine pencil line meet in mythological thunder and lightning, two genius' minds make love.
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Post Paris XXII

A false encyclopaedic guide to the Paris collections, presenting:
Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2013

1. Gene Moore Tiffany & Co, 1963
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2002
3. The Secret Museum of Mankind Weed-robed celebrants of Ghoulish rites, 1935

The surrealist window displays of Gene Moore, the characteristic imagery of Vogue Italia and Owens' ethereal sportswear infusion resulted in a post-romantic plastic raincoat doll tribe massacre.
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A Short History Of Lips In Popular Culture

1. Man Ray Le Baiser, 1930
2. Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2004
3. Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2006
4. Man Ray A l’heure de l’observatoire – Les Amoureux, 1934
5. Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2009

A surreal kiss between Man Ray and Rei Kawakubo that has never been. Paired and displaced, multiplied and supersized. For Man Ray, the 'nakedness of two faces' was a socially tolerated form of sexual portraiture and therefore being chosen. Rei Kawakubo says: ‘If you are to put color on the face, it need not to be on the lips. It can be anywhere’. While Man Ray tends towards sensuality, Rei Kawakubo prefers destroyed feminity as an anti-position and de-sexualisation. And lips don't lie.
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