Prince Charming

Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2013

The 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' chess check, 'Prinz Eisenherz' hair, a 'Ken Park' cast. Infantile as core value, historic nostalgia as ironic pastiche. This season's Homme Plus is a Boys' Plus coming-of-age toy story.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XI

1. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
2. Thomas Bayrle Feuer Im Welzen (Fire In The Wheat), 1970
3. Unknown
4. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
5. Thomas Bayrle Edition Jake Wie Hose (Naked Lunch), 1970
6. Thomas Bayrle Feuer Im Welzen (Fire In The Wheat), 1970
7. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
8. Thomas Bayrle Edition Jake Wie Hose (Naked Lunch), 1970

Investigating on the motif of 'naive repetition' and the typology of 'pixel pin-ups'. Reviewing: the suppressed eroticism of Raf Simons' intarsia knits in dialogue with Thomas Bayrle's nonchalant erotica. A lesson in 'neutralized sex' by the means of oversimplification/denial.
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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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Historiographed

1. Raf Simons Isolated Heroes
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 1999 & Lanvin Spring/Summer 2013
3. Lanvin Spring/Summer 2013 & Raf Simons Fall/Winter 1999

In homage to Joan Rivers we could call this category Bitch stole my look! The secret club of bowl cut leatherettes. Could also be a new alternative boy group format. Either way, 14 years later no one can call it copycatting, right?
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