Tokyo Diaries V

A mental travel preparation.

Ikuo Amano Shiseido クレ・ド・ポー

Intensity is what I expect. Purity is what I assume. There is nothing but pink lipstick - the world and every human being immersed in its lucid gloss. I want to be blinded by artificial beauty.
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Drawn

Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring/Summer 2013

Manga men, spiked headbands and evil perfection. The male equivalent to Anime beauty. The appropriate proposal for a pre-apocalyptic world. Japanese reality as tomorrow's fate: To die or to dye?
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Drool

Photos Blommers & Schumm

The most successful depiction of the 'unperfectly perfect' can be attributed to Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm. Their stylized portraiture of faces in front of candy-coloured backgrounds achieves an almost virtual, Anime-infused degree of beauty.
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Drawl

Steven Meisel - Prada Fall/Winter 2011

An über-stylized almost softcore presentation of perfect porcelain skin and young, innocent lolita beauty. When the spheres of reality blur from High Fashion to Second Life, woman and image are equally fetishized.
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Beauty, Recycled

1. Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2000
2. Daniel Jackson A Scanner Darkly, Dazed & Confused 2012
3. Junya Watanabe Fall/Winter 2009

The displaced lip as mentioned in a previous chapter is further continued with the flattened face. Reducing the physiognomy to strong black lines and holohedral white surfaces. Make-up as Japanese xylography.
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