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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Rug-Bi-Sexual

Jessica Mort Central Saint Martins Fall/Winter 2014

Taking a predetermined masculine idea and applying techniques that are traditonally perceived feminine (weaving, knitting, fraying), the polo shirt cliché is dissolving into gradient fringe dresses.
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For Jeff, 2013

or 'No de-fence'

Cardigan Comme des Garçons Homme Plus
T-Shirt Raf Simons
Shorts Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

The backstreet fence is where Jeff and Raf meet. Pink Panther is the comic-al character Rei and Jeff both mutually met. My skin is the backdrop for their story - a virtual threesome.
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Appendix:


1. Jeff Koons Pink Panther, 1988
2. Jeff Koons Fait d'Hiver, 1988

Post Graduate V

A false encyclopaedic guide to the Central Saint Martins collections, presenting:
Anita Hirlekar B.A. Graduate Collection 2012

1. Ann Demeulemeester Spring/Summer 2012
2. Willi Baumeister Apoll, 1922
3. Samuel Drira & Sybille Walter encens 24, 2010

The lithographic image of women. An anti-sexualized, neutralized, androgynous graphic body. Birth child of Late Cubism and New Romanticism. If Braque was a Blitz Child. If Ann, Anita and Sybille were part of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Post Graduate IV

A false encyclopaedic guide to the Central Saint Martins collections, presenting:
Luke Stevens B.A. Graduate Collection 2012

1. Christopher Shannon Spring/Summer 2012
2. Yves Tanguy The Invisibles, 1951
3. Helmut Lang Make It Hard 2011

An assemblage of dip-dyed, glued-together pieces. Of raw, intuitive gestures, adding layer for layer for layer. Sportswear as a form of extreme DIY. Destruction as creation.
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