Drawn Faces Fight

1. Jan Lehner No Colours Anymore, I Want Them To Turn Black, 2014
2. Pablo Picasso Untitled, 1945

Looking back to the beginnings and discovering the category The Fight. Visual analogies that built the foundation of this aesthetic commentary. And let's face it, everything else is travesty. Yet, one could always wear Alex Bottenberg.
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Holy Light

Pablo Picasso Light Drawings, 1949

Pablo and I stole a christmas tree last night.
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Another Sculptor, Mythology

Artworks Pablo Picasso

The Vollard Suite drawings depict the act of creation and artistic birth in a layered manner; the artwork stands on its own while the content refers to its creation as such. Again, we are confronted with the god-like character of a maker.
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Post Paris XVIII

A false encyclopaedic guide to the menswear collections, presenting:
Walter van Beirendonck Spring/Summer 2013

1. Pierre et Gilles St. Sebastian, 1987
2. Pablo Picasso Pierrot with a Mask, 1918
3. Isa Genzken Urlaub, 2004

This collection had everything unsightly you can imagine: gay kitsch, harlequin collars and loads of foam. All put together à la Genzken. There were bits of bondage, too. And mythologic references for which reason we do forgive.
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P.S.: The woman sitting front row to the left was clearly trying to make the models trip.

Granularity IV

1. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2013
2. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2010
3. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2003
4. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2012

The Raf Sander universe is a hermeneutic one. The face reappears. From Bauhaus and Brian Calvin at Raf Simons to Tsuguharu Foujita and Picasso at Jil Sander. It's a two-faced story.
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Appendix: Looking back, looking left and right.

5. Jean Paul Gaultier Spring/Summer 2003
6. Givenchy Spring/Summer 2013

The Decorative Anti-Decorative

1. Pablo Picasso Vase deux anses hautes, 1953
2. Ancient pottery, Hohhot, China 500 B.C.
3. Ancient pottery, Japan, Dogu 3000-2000 B.C.

The archaic craft of pottery has recently developed a threatening strength amidst contemporary minimalism. A raw, unfinished and naive quality that makes it a strategically ugly intrudor in polished homes.
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