Walter's Monsters

1. Jürgen Teller Believe, 1999
2. Walter van Beirendonck Spring/Summer 2015

Today, 'arts and crafts' as aesthetic principle and technique (not movement) has a bad reputation. Undeservedly so. One wishes, there was more handcraft without calling it 'couture'. Breaking the human body, the human clothing into bits and pieces before reassembling its most crucial and visually most entertaining parts. Hail Walter.
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Tokyo Diaries XVI

A mental travel preparation.



Factotum Spring/Summer 2014

Eager to meet, learn from and become a hara-kiri school boy. Adapting to his uniform of tie, knee socks, flowers and books. Reading. Smiling. Observing. Thinking. Studying the art of studying.
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Tokyo Diaries XI

A mental travel preparation.



1. Eikō Hosoe Barakei, 1961-1962
2. Tamotsu Yatō Mishima Yukio, 1967

Theoretically following the man who died for his genius, insanity and sexual identity. While examining various possible aspects, it is radicalness that attracts this cultural tourism.
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Tokyo Diaries VIII

A mental travel preparation.

Kenji Sawada Water Skin (Parco View 6), 1980

Parco, the department store, liberated a country. With pubic hair and nudity dominating the campaigns and visual identity created by the likes of Eiko Ishioka and Harumi Yamaguchi. One should come prepared.
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Archivio, An

Stone Island Archivio '982-'012

Scientific research has shown that performance clothes influence the wearer's performance. Capes lend the ability to fly while metal foil surfaces teleport to outer space.
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Iterative Iterations

Daniel Brush Thirty Years' Work

A recent New York discovery and already within the realms of my most admired artists, Daniel Brush takes minimalism to different stages. Ranging from playful animal brooch readymades to brush gesture paintings and 3D structure installations.
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German Psycho, 2012

or 'The Pleasure Is Mine'

















Plastic raincoat Jil Sander
Shirt Raf Simons
Book Redux by Raf Simons
Jacket Topman
Tie Second Hand
Trousers H&M

When longing for and taking care of a garment transcends the mental and becomes a bare physical act, the term 'I would kill for that coat' finally obtains truthful meaning. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
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