Paths Towards Modernity V

1. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
2. Richard Prince Untitled (Man's Hand On Pocket With Watch), 1980
3. Richard Prince Cowboys & Girlfriends, 1992
4. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
5. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
6. Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy), 2001
7. Richard Prince Untitled (Original), 2009
8. Richard Prince Untitled, 2008
9. Versace 1980s
10. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
11. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
12. Richard Prince Nurse With Wings (Detail), 2003
13. Versace Fall/Winter 2013
14. Versace Fall/Winter 1994
15. Richard Prince Untitled, 2007

Richard Prince created the art practice of 'appropriation'. Regarded as one of the main players/actors of The Picture Generation he took pictures of pictures and declared them artworks of their own. With motorbike cowboys and vinyl nurses as subject, Prince plays with stereotypes and superstages them as cult of popular mainstream culture. And when cliché and sexism collide, Gianni and Donatella are not afar.
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Study Of Me, 2014

or 'A Mean Man'

Top Brynje
Trousers H&M

Maybe this is the essence. The substrate of maleness and maximum subtract of butch, applied to myself. The fetish of male psychology between Kafka and Klein, my literary and aesthetic food. You are what you put in your mouth.
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Wishful Thinking #1

Gosha Rubchinskiy Fall/Winter 2012

Things I would like to have. I wish I owned. Someone would find. And give to me. Dearly. Highly. Appreciated. Those who find their fulfilment within the fulfilment of others are warmly invited to realize and materialize this first wishful thinking of mine.
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Anti-Me Society II

Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2013

The last hurrah by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton was a self-revolting revolution. Showgirl punk with graffiti lettering, ruffles, sequins and feathered bras. Not giving a fuck was never that delicately well done.
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A Short History Of The Grid In Popular Culture VIII

1. Bruno Zhu Untitled, 2013
2. Chloé Fall/Winter 2013
3. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 1998
4. LG Lundberg Stängsel, 1973-1979

The chain linked fence, once again: Somehow, it carries the subliminal attitude of Steampunk - the sub-genre that features machinery, especially in a setting inspired by industrialized civilization. Put shortly, the fence motif in fashion introduces a pre-post-apocalyptic future.
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Trend X-Plorer IV

Revealing trends that cannot and will not be picked up but should be nonetheless.
Part 4: The Melting Mesh

1. Christopher Shannon Spring/Summer 2014
2. Kenzo Spring/Summer 2014
3. Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2014

The grid (as we know it) is dissolving. The internet turned out to be less than a lie. A virtual reality turned reality. Thus, the poles and meshes are melting. And our clothes are caught between op-art and psychedelia - updated and synchronised with our new state of mind.
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Post London IV

A 'False Encyclopaedia' double feature with Bryan Rapp, discussing:
J.W. Anderson Spring/Summer 2014

When I was a kid, I used to play a lot of sports. I tended goals in both ice hockey and football. The former required wearing a jockstrap. For a short period of time, I tried my luck in the game of handball as well (but not as a goalie, mind you). It was one of my then-best friends, with the most common Swedish surname Andersson, who brought me to my first handball practice. I remember that our coach was a pregnant woman and that our team colours were red, blue and white. I quit the team after only a couple of weeks. Handball was not my cup of tea.

/BRYAN

When -isms collide and the gender revolution neutralises itself, anti-masculinity becomes the mere image of womenswear worn by men. Or men wearing womenswear. Plus. Minus. Zero. Slowly, the J.W.A. concept becomes a papier mâché set, loosely glued together, juncture points still visible. A reflection of one's own deconstruction:
Ad novum mundum creandum, primum delendus est vetus. Scissors, pins, ready.
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1. J.W. Anderson Spring/Summer 2014
2. Jeff Koons One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, 1985
3. Joe Lally Pop 421, 2013
4. Wayne's World Game On, 1992
5. J.W. Anderson Fall/Winter 2013
6. Maurice Scheltens Forms Of Boredom, 1999
7. Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2011
8. J.W. Anderson Spring/Summer 2014

All about Bryan Rapp

Stitch & Repair: Frankenstein

1. Christopher Kane Spring/Summer 2013
2. Rick Owens Fall/Winter 2013
3. Givenchy Fall/Winter 2013

Undead, broken, reassembled. The open-heart experiments of Ownes, Tisci and Kane. A living study in 'plastic' surgery, all connected by one thick thread. Also known as: Anti-Couture.
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