A Short History Of Rent Boys In Popular Culture (Interlude)

1. José Manuel Ferrater Beach Goth, 2009
2. John Galliano Spring/Summer 2001

Boots as a man's men's essential. Or, respectively alternatively, thigh-high socks. The high shaft correlates to an emphasized or exposed crotch area. How I wish for a return of the 2000s.
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A Short History Of Rent Boys In Popular Culture

1. David Zanes Rent Boys (DUTCH #6), 1996
2. D&G Spring/Summer 2000
3. DSquared Spring/Summer 2001
4. Dirk Bikkembergs Spring/Summer 2000
5. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2014
6. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014

Before the metrosexual was the boytoy/toyboy. 1996-2000. In tank tops, fringe tops, leather tops, rubber boots. Until Beckham came. Only Hedi and Raf resisted througout. One of them returned to rubber boots.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XVII

1. Unknown (X-MEN)
2. Cary Kwok Pop In The Eye, 2013
3. Unknown (Disney)
4. Unknown
5. Raymond Pettibon Unknown
6. Comme des Garçons Shirt Spring/Summer 2008
7. John Wesley Woman On Top (detail), 1996
8. John Wesley Untitled (Woman With Glasses, detail), 2004

Sex metaphors within comic. Usually a pastiche or web manipulation, the signals of intercourse via flat colour fields are a recurring fantasy in a seemingly forbidden, sexually neutral, non-physical, hypothetic and pre-adulthood cultural context. Sex in comic is another last taboo.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XVI

1. Ben Wheele Apple Obelisk, 2012
2. David Shrigley Big Shoes, 2013
3. Zachary Leener 2014

The comic as sculpture. As grotesque mutant heads, funny elongated heels and naïve multi-coloured forms. Ceramic replaces paper and the shoe designer at Dior has something big to look up to.
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A Short History Of The Plastic Raincoat In Popular Culture VI

1. Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2014
2. Thomas Bayrle Produzione Bayrle Coats, 1967-68
3. Prada Fall/Winter 2002
4. Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2014

Never too late, never gone. The coloured plastic raincoat takes us back to 1949, 1967 and 2002. It is true that the future will always look old-fashioned. And the present will always feel like the past.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XV

1. Jamian Juliano-Villani Me,Myself And Jah-Jah, 2013
2. Marlie Mul Cigarette Ends Here (Do-Gooders), 2012
3. Tilt Alix Sofa, 2013
4. Roy Lichtenstein Atomic Landscape,1966

The cloud. The blow. The fart. While bubble and star shapes contain and visualize auditory events, the cloud represents the invisible and nonvocal. It is the most complex form, yet carries no meaning. Just air. The oral, anal and apocalyptic nothingness of meaningfulness.
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See also The Explosion Star and The Speech Bubble

A Short History Of Patchwork In Popular Culture

1. Comme des Garçons Homme Plus Spring/Summer 2000
2. Robert Rauschenberg Windward, 1963
3. Robert Rauschenberg From The Seat Of Authority, 1979
4. Junya Watanabe Fall/Winter 2013
5. John Baldessari Hope (Blue) Supported By A Bed Of Oranges (Life): Amid A Context Of Allusions, 1991

The re-appreciation of re-appropriation: patchwork in fashion and art. As delicate layers (Rei and Robert) or harsh mismatching (Junya and John). Trusting in the contextual meaning of found material that is finding itself renewed.
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