Tokyo Diaries XVI

A mental travel preparation.



Factotum Spring/Summer 2014

Eager to meet, learn from and become a hara-kiri school boy. Adapting to his uniform of tie, knee socks, flowers and books. Reading. Smiling. Observing. Thinking. Studying the art of studying.
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The Prarf II

1. Prada Fall/Winter 2006
2. Prada Spring/Summer 2001

In an attempt to complete previous thoughts, we ought return to previous thoughts. And ponder on previous thoughts. While we should never forget previous thoughts. Thoughtful.
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Paths Towards Modernity II

A fictive documentary in art and fashion.

1. Georg Baselitz Familienbild Ancora, 2009
2. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2007
3. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2007
4. Georg Baselitz Victor Brauner Besucht Dix, 2008
5. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2000
6. Georg Baselitz Und Die Ganze Folklore, 2009
7. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2011
8. Georg Baselitz Besuch In Ekely, 2005
9. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2011
10. Georg Baselitz Ekely, 2004
11. Jil Sander 1990
12. Georg Baselitz Untitled, 1998
13. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2004
14. Georg Baselitz Elke I, 1975
15. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2003
16. Georg Baselitz Tränenkopf, 1986
17. Georg Baselitz Gut Grau, 2009
18. Jil Sander 1966

Georg Baselitz and Jil Sander/Raf Simons share a rawness, immediacy and severity. Mostly depicting/proposing men in suits and women in primary colour dresses. They are minimalist, restrained and, yet, messed up. The purity of imperfection.
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Moiré Moanings

1. Ed Ruscha We Humans (spinach & egg white on moiré), 1974
2. Alexander van Slobbe Spring/Summer 1999
3. Ed Ruscha Magnetic (blueberry on moiré), 1974
4. Céline Spring/Summer 2011
5. Ed Ruscha Babycakes (blueberry & egg yolk on moiré), 1974
6. Rodarte Fall/Winter 2011

An unresolved trauma and my unfulfilled desire: to wear trompe l'œil metaphors. Moiré as sociologic experiment, food as paint. Letters on canvas, textile as art, clothes as buildings.
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Now & Then VIII

1. Prada Spring/Summer 2013
2. Prada Spring/Summer 1999

Miuccia's Asian infusion. The submissive clichée of 1960s exoticism modernized and re-fetishized by means of asymmetry and the silk kimono side slit. Temporarily reducing power woman to house maid - as part of an intellectual role play.
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Helmut Dialogues IV

1. Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2005
2. Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2013

In this dialogue, topics re-appear as answers. And motifs change tonality and shape. It is an intelligent conversation, an intelectual one. It's a discussion of kitsch and feminity. From two, very masculine, point of views.
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The Humanist, 2012

or 'I Am On Page 26'


























Leather coat Second Hand
Vest Gosha Rubchinskiy
Shorts H&M
Socks Weekday
Shoes Raf Simons

Today's intellectual is a leather man. He studies, he reads, he writes. He is eager to know and understand. He likes to travel. His mind is a visual archive, his living room a library.
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1. Marteinn Jonsson
2. Maison Martin Margiela Fall/Winter 2012
3. Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2012

Hidden lips, intellectual minds. Turtlenecks are a highly aggressiveattractive choice, preferably paired with short shorts. Once you veil, you should also reveal. I will wear one tomorrow.
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St. Prada Campus

Prada Spring/Summer 2013

It was a blend of Miuccia's golf cowboys from Spring/Summer 2012 and her Emergency Room scrubs from Spring/Summer 2011, extended by a parade of 'high waist' trompe l'œil trousers and the almost obligatory sandals with socks.

A bit Berlin second hand boutique, a bit public pool 'lost and found' corner, a bit humanistic campus picnic. All in all, it drew the image of a man I'd feel attracted to, having a glass of red and conversations on erotic architecture. Which, as it turns out, doesn't make any sense at all.
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