The Intertext Of Hedi Slimane

1. Raymond Pettibon Invite, Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
2. Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
3. John Baldessari Invite, Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
4. Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014

The artists Slimane chooses and the symbols their invitation artworks depict imply a crossing of meaning. Comic-like figures with disturbing, poetic and ambiguous undertone? The anti-authoritarian spirit of youth? Pettibon! Menswear! The appropriation of the found image as art practice? Endless repetition with subtle changes? Baldessari! Womenswear! 9 classic jackets over sparkly dresses...
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Double-Faced, 2014

or 'This Painting Is So Last Season'

T-Shirt Raf Simons
Magazine Spike

Raf Simons projects his curriculum vitae onto the products he offers for sale. As art consultant and collector, he places artworks straight onto the clothes he produces for his own line, for Jil Sander and now Dior. With those textile re-editions of Picasso, Rothko and Warhol, pop art can be folded away neatly in drawers or put on hangers - which informs a new term, that is Closet Art.
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Trend X-Plorer

Revealing trends that cannot and will not be picked up but should be nonetheless.
Part 1: The Hidden Painting

1. Acne Spring/Summer 2014
2. Walter van Beirendonck Spring/Summer 2014
3. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2014

Ignoring the only logic and legal right for its very existence by hiding the allover print from maximum exposure, or deconstructing the artwork into a series of garments, this trend celebrates blatent disregard. Let's call it #IDGAF - the 'I Don't Give A Fuck' phenomenon.
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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