Fashion Charts V

1. Simone Rocha Fall/Winter 2014

2. Sportmax Fall/Winter 2014

3. Gucci Fall/Winter 2014

Longing for super snakeskin. Colourized and streamlined. Total perfection (Simone), total adaption (Sportmax), total redemption (Gucci). Milan and London is dressing for the transgender woman at heart.
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Historiographed, Again

1. Tom Ford Fall/Winter 2014
2. Gucci Fall/Winter 1999
3. Tom Ford Fall/Winter 2014
4. Gucci Fall/Winter 1997
5. Tom Ford Fall/Winter 2014
6. Gucci Fall/Winter 1997
7. Tom Ford Fall/Winter 2014
8. Gucci Spring/Summer 1998

Tom Ford just re-did Gucci by Tom Ford (1994-2004). Red crocodile, leopard, lacing, plush fur and shiny leather. Fashion is cyclic - as it should be. And this cycle has proven itself to be around 13 to 14 years.
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The World's Sexiest Homoerotic Fashion Campaigns

1. Terry Richardson Sisley Fall/Winter 2009
2. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott DSquared Spring/Summer 2011
3. Terry Richardson Gucci Fall/Winter 2001
4. Mario Sorrenti Lanvin Fall/Winter 2001
5. Mario Sorrenti Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 1994
6. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott Givenchy Fall/Winter 2010
7. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott Givenchy Fall/Winter 2009
8. Craig McDean Prada Sport Spring/Summer 2008
9. Terry Richardson Tom Ford Spring/Summer 2008
10. David LaChapelle Patrick Cox, 2003

After the celebrated and never forgotten The World's Sexiest Male Fashion Designers, it is time for a sequel. Who is pushing same sex boundaries? Depictions of wishful thinking, 'sex sells' and the provoked side effects of luxury. Everything for journalistic, humanist and historical reasons.
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Eau De Sanctification

1. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott Gucci Envy
2. Frank Miller Gucci Guilty Pour Homme, 2010
3. Daniel Jackson Calvin Klein Dark Obsession, 2013
4. Unknown Gucci Envy for Men, 1998
5. Bruce Weber Calvin Klein Eternity, 1991

Besides established themes like romance, it is interesting to observe a dominance of religious motifs within the realms of perfume ads. Ingredients such as patchouli and incense position the olfactory creation as 'holy water', a spritz of sin.
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Superficial Implant

Part II of 'Duplicate Diptych Week'



1. Balenciaga Spring/Summer 1997
2. Gucci Fall/Winter 1996

From 'amorphous forms' (cf. Hans Arp) to 'organic plates' at Balenciaga and Gucci by Tom Ford, strict geometry is broken into fluid shapes. Designed as a golden armour, hidden as second-skin, revealed by cutouts.
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