Now & Then VIII

1. Prada Spring/Summer 2013
2. Prada Spring/Summer 1999

Miuccia's Asian infusion. The submissive clichée of 1960s exoticism modernized and re-fetishized by means of asymmetry and the silk kimono side slit. Temporarily reducing power woman to house maid - as part of an intellectual role play.
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Exoticism

Photos DC Chang

For some reason, these images remind me of the very great Mishima Yukio and his autobiographical novel 'Confessions of a Mask'. A piece of world literature that should be consumed by everyone.
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Appendix:

Mishima Yukio Confessions of a Mask, 1949

For further homoerotic discourse see HORST and HORST

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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