Granularity X

1. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
2. Helmut Lang Surrogate Skin, 2008
3. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
4. Helmut Lang Make It Hard, 2011
5. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
6. Helmut Lang Arbor, 2008
7. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
8. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
9. Helmut Lang Arbor, 2008
10. Helmut Lang Fall/Winter 1996 & Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
11. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014
12. Helmut Lang Front Row, 2009
13. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014

The Raf Sandior universe is a hermeneutic one. Like father, like son. Or like 'Fathers Fathers' and 'Abus(ive) Lang(uage)'. And as we know, this letter similitude is no coincidence. What would father say?
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Denudity

Hood By Air Fall/Winter 2014

Remove the three letters, ignore the branding and the sportswear stripes. Take the pieces that no one dares to buy. Remove your clothes. Let the thoughts behind those garments uncover you.
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Now & Then XIV

1. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014 (Willy Vanderperre & Olivier Rizzo)
2. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2003 (Mario Sorrenti & Panos Yiapanis)

Two power couples of styling and photography in the battle of decades. They fight for the attention of Raf, or RAF. Who will remain the winner? And why are we haunted by the ever-recurring image of rebellion/youth?
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Full Circle, or: Happy Quickly After

1. Jürgen Teller Sarah Lucas At Home, 2013
2. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
3. Alasdair McLellan Arena Homme Plus, 2014
4. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014 & Jürgen Teller Sarah Lucas At Home, 2013

What started between Sarah and Jürgen in an intimate home story, has been picked up and processed in a labour of love between Raf and Sterling - just to be shot again, with Alasdair washing the acid dishes.
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Tokyo Diaries III

A mental travel preparation.




Ganryu Fall/Winter 2014

Clothes for the modern man. The one who travels with(in) his body and mind. Loose fit skorts and platform trainers for a cushioned step into the other world. For the one who travels to Tokyo, Japan.
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Prada Fantasies, Epilogue

1. Prada Spring/Summer 2008
2. Prada Fall/Winter 2014

Of course, there are also Prada womenswear collections that I missed. But yet, they do not remain out of reach of our collective heart forever. They return, they come back. Great Prada collections.
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Couples V

1. Carven Fall/Winter 2014
2. Lanvin Fall/Winter 2014

Lanvin was very Fantastic Planet and Carven all about surrealist collage. What unites them both is the recurring image of 'hands', the fetish subject/object of Man Ray's work. Hands are back and trending.
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The Intertext Of Hedi Slimane

1. Raymond Pettibon Invite, Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
2. Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
3. John Baldessari Invite, Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014
4. Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2014

The artists Slimane chooses and the symbols their invitation artworks depict imply a crossing of meaning. Comic-like figures with disturbing, poetic and ambiguous undertone? The anti-authoritarian spirit of youth? Pettibon! Menswear! The appropriation of the found image as art practice? Endless repetition with subtle changes? Baldessari! Womenswear! 9 classic jackets over sparkly dresses...
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Fashion Charts VII

1. Céline Fall/Winter 2014

2. Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2014

3. Missoni Fall/Winter 2014

Longing for plastic fantastic embellishments. Toys 'R' Her - that only money can buy. The careerist (Phoebe), the feminist (Stella), the female nerd (Angela). The Parisian woman is emancipating her inner child. Which is her interpretation of men-erism.
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