Body Con

1. Allen Jones Cut-a-Way, 1976
2. Allen Jones IV, 1976
3. Allen Jones III, 1976

The scanning eye of Allen Jones. On women. On buyable love. On pop art. A study in high-heels and latex gloves. Revealing each layer of visual attraction and sensual exploration.
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Work Bitch

Britney Spears - Work Bitch 2013

I am sorry to break it to you but this is going to be history. The bitch is back. And she is working it. Reversed triangle platforms (Silent Hill), desert car scenes (Spice Girls) and bisexual slave action (Madonna) are interwined in Britney's self-referential pop mesh. Add a perfume bottle product placement and pop becomes POP.
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Art Interiors VI

Artworks Johannes Spehr

The naive interiors of Johannes Spehr are inhabited by (half-naked) bodies and builders. Executing naughty practices and performing routined acts. And while doing so, they create chaos, fire, holes, stains and puddles. Demolition, a new kind of home decoration.
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Post Paris XXX

A 'False Encyclopaedia' double feature with Fabian Hart, discussing:
Chanel Fall/Winter 2013

I like Karl Lagerfeld.

For being an entertainer, for his ready wit, his eloquence, his ingenuity, his business sense and unprecedented career.

For making history.

I don’t like Karl Lagerfeld for making history. As a designer. In particular for Chanel. The wool costumes that once, back in Gabrielle Chanel's day, embodied a new ideal of woman, have become obsolete, an antiquated retro-look that not only references Coco Chanel but also himself in the eighties when he took over the design house. Today all these references have become a mood board of heritage, a constant repetition of silhouettes, fabrics and ideas. He makes women (and super young models) look like old frumps and his rock and fetish references are a desperate attempt to be contemporary/relevant for the time we live in.

/FABIAN

I wish there was a splash of Makoto Aida's 'Harakiri School Girls' (2006), a hint of brutality. Yet, the constant ejection of seventy-six safe and seen-before bouclé looks unveils Karl's real perversity, his very own sadistic torture. In this sense, the collection as a holistic idea reflects the writings of Marquis de Sade – and is accordingly staged in a majestic venue that evokes scenes of secret underground cellars occupied by chained virgins and naked slaves in leather boots.
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1. Chanel Fall/Winter 2013
2. Richard Avedon Coco Chanel, 1958
3. Karl Lagerfeld The Muse And The Master, 1983
4. Kasimir Malewitsch Das Schwarze Quadrat, 1915
5. Man Ray The Imaginary Portrait of the Marquis de Sade, 1938
6. Makoto Aida Dog (Snow), 1998
7. Kevin Scott Hees Untitled
8. Chanel Fall/Winter 2013

More about Fabian Hart

The Non-Pro-Redundant

Yves Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2012

Sometimes I do need to repeat things others have said, implied or mentioned. Images we have seen being reproduced and restaged in editorial shoots. Only to emphasize that I do like them, too. Sometimes this is important, too.
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Image credits Catwalking

Spikes

1. Thom Browne Fall/Winter 2012
2. Junya Watanabe Fall/Winter 2006
3. Jaiden rVa James Spring/Summer 2010
4. Hermès Kelly Bag customized by Jun Takahashi
5. Gosha Rubchinskiy Spring/Summer 2009

It ain't over until you give it a try. And it is allowed when Thom does it. In good company with Gosha, James, Jun and Junya. For a fashion sin only exists when you truly commit it.
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