The Cyber Woman, Mechanical Dolls

1. Hans Bellmer Machine Gunneress In A State Of Grace, 1937
2. Sarah Lucas Bunny Gets Snookered, 1997

When Hans and Sarah erect 'female material sculpture', sexual identity has eaten itself. There is no in and out. Physical interaction is impossible. Femancipation is the construct of disembodied bodies.
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Post Paris XXII

A false encyclopaedic guide to the Paris collections, presenting:
Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2013

1. Gene Moore Tiffany & Co, 1963
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2002
3. The Secret Museum of Mankind Weed-robed celebrants of Ghoulish rites, 1935

The surrealist window displays of Gene Moore, the characteristic imagery of Vogue Italia and Owens' ethereal sportswear infusion resulted in a post-romantic plastic raincoat doll tribe massacre.
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Absence II

Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2007

Ghost hands and other implants. When looking back at Hussein Chalayan '10 we are actually looking back at Rei Kawakubo '07. And some of us are even looking back at a handy 'Ghost' scene by Bruce Joel Rubin '90.
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