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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Globetrotters, or: A Collector's Collection

1. Dior Fall/Winter 2013
2. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
3. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
4. Dior Spring/Summer 2014
5. Dior Fall/Winter 2013 & Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
6. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2013 & Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014

I love the fact that, in a way, the collaboration of Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby has delivered a masculinized, messier, multiplied version of the Dior cosmos. And now, for women as for men, it is all about the statement shoe and the statement bag.
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Image credits Style.com

A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture IV

1. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2009
2. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 1987
3. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2004
4. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2002
5. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2007

The Yohji Yamamoto appreciation edition. Throughout the years, comic derivates re-appear within the menswear collections. Ranging from stylized hand silhouettes to Geisha portraits and pixelized computer characters. From poetic to rather ridiculous, they reflect a constant 'twinkle in the eye' as core of an aesthetic universe.
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Plakatkunst II

1. Mark Bohle Mein Fell ist ein teurer Pelz, 2011
2. Franciszek Starowieys​ki Surrealiści Polsky, 1995

My skin feels like hide. My hair like fur. When moving between worlds of perception, existence blurs. The image is always a mirror, allowing us to reflect on ourselves and to compare our views on self.
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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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Simulation, Stimulation

1. Andreas Angelidakis Hand House, 2010
2. Franz Roh Hommage à Max Ernst, 1935
3. Man Ray Profile and Hands, 1932

'Case Study House attempts to sum up a portrait of Los Angeles as a city of infrastructural crisis, impending disaster and celebrity paranoia. (...) Now the gigantic hand (...) appears to be coming out of the water, elegantly holding a serving tray, as if the Statue of Liberty became a waitress and her hand holds up a building, perched over the cliff like a billboard.' - Andreas Angelidakis
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