Basic Homme

or 'Spread Your Legs'










Polo dress Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Jacket Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

The gradual is the rationale behind fashion. Dressing accordingly to the trends and times is, per definition, unfashionable. Prolonging the men's dress therefore is a never-ending cycle of right-not-right which makes it a classic already.
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Study Of Me, 2014

or 'A Mean Man'

Top Brynje
Trousers H&M

Maybe this is the essence. The substrate of maleness and maximum subtract of butch, applied to myself. The fetish of male psychology between Kafka and Klein, my literary and aesthetic food. You are what you put in your mouth.
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Harlekin, 2014

or 'Heidemarie Jiline Tought Me Drama'

Top Jil Sander

A classic rule of (tragic) comedy: Repeat something three times. And then, change it. A classic rule of (poetic) drama: Let there be no happy end. As a result: We laugh tears, and cry tears.
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Wishful Thinking #2

Front Chess Table, 2009

A table for rivalry (as self-described by the creators), this black-and-white checkered object has proven itself a valid display for naked bodies wrapped around - perfectly shown in the photography project Inside The Box by Erwin Olaf and Marcel Wanders.
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Poster Boys (Without Beuys)

Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin V Best: Five Years of V Magazine, 2005

Just like setcards from a model agency's development department, the cast of a new scripted reality show, or the long-overdue indie boy band - we are introduced to three unusually handsome actors headlining the greatest of all fashion plays.
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Midrift

1. Leon Mark Common & Sense Man, 2013
2. Tetsuharu Kubota We've Come Too Far, 2013

What is left when fashion's de-sexualization of the male physiognomy is running out of options? After the men's corset, the men's bra and the men's dress, the new 'thing' is an exposed lower upper body. Eventually, this part is the highest art.
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Aoyama, Epilogue

Skirt Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Belt Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
Cut-out shirt Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

A #before and #after on the creation of the school boy-cum-girl. Based on the golden ratio: pyramid bottom versus V-shaped upper body. Rotated 90 degrees, his/her identity remains undisclosed.
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Pole, 2013

or 'Not Safe For World'

T-Shirt Raf Simons
Shorts Comme des Garçons
Underwear Barcode

Madonna's 'Sex Book' by Steven Meisel, banned Calvin Klein commercials and Paris Hilton's sex tape - who is the judge, who's the voyeur? How can 'offensive' image material be so pleasing?
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A Short History Of Anime In Popular Culture (Interlude)

Michael Jackson % Janet Jackson - Scream 1995

The opening scene of the most expensive video of its time. A better version of 'The Scream'. And a reminder that everything that will be has been. I am looking forward to it (the future).
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