Shop-A-Holistic

Matias Faldbakken Untitled (Plastic Bag), 2010

The artist who seeks to be liked. Because of the awkwardness of the art space, his art and self. 'It's foggy and strange and vague. And ya, that's what I like to be so here I am.'
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ER - A - (S...)ER

1. Michael Krebber Systemic Relevance, 2014
2. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 1998
3. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 1996
4. Ed Ruscha Rabbit, 1986

Flying from Krebber to Ruscha via Sander. For obvious reasons, I am still faithful to the brand. Although left anonymous now. But besides all personality talk, it is the moment and concept that count.
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Tokyo Diaries XV

A mental travel preparation.




Naruse Inokuma Architects Setagaya Flat, 2011

Moving in. A wooden box of medetative emptiness. Moving. Unfinished finished surface manipulation. Just moved in. The completeness of nothing. Moving away. The souvenir: a feeling of removal.
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Granularity VIII

1. Dior Fall/Winter 2014
2. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2014
3. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2014
4. Dior Fall/Winter 2014
5. Dior Fall/Winter 2014
6. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2014
7. Dior Fall/Winter 2014
8. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2014

The Raf Sandior universe is a hermeneutic one. And it is about shoes. Fast paced models in pop coloured running pumps. Their stumbling stride only buffered by block striped guard rails. Style first, safety second.
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Harlekin, 2014

or 'Heidemarie Jiline Tought Me Drama'

Top Jil Sander

A classic rule of (tragic) comedy: Repeat something three times. And then, change it. A classic rule of (poetic) drama: Let there be no happy end. As a result: We laugh tears, and cry tears.
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Voice Files III (German Edition)

Instant one-sentence-interviews recording the commentary of people that matter.


Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2014


"Grey suits like the curtains I’ve always wanted to get, deep purple that might smell like I’ve always wanted my living room to smell, the Jil Sander nonchalente seriousness with a twist for the ones who know it. It’s what both the professor and his students wear at the opening reception of their ski trip to Aspen, both not knowing why they are actually there."
/VINZENZ HOELZL, founder HUSK Magazine

"War der fast weinerliche Soundtrack zur Schau von den Tindersticks mit dem Titel 'She's Gone' ein Ausdruck des Vermissens der guten alten Zeit, als Mutter Jil Sander herself noch für das Design verantwortlich war? Jedenfalls scheint ihr langer Schatten, und der Raf Simons, das Haus noch nicht ganz verlassen zu haben. Die aktuelle Kollektion kommt wie ein Best of der letzten paar Jahre herüber: Leder, gepunktete Hemden, lange oversize Jacken, Filz und grafische Muster.
Wohin die ästhetische Reise gehen wird, sobald das verlassene Kind selbständig geworden ist, bleibt spannend."

/MAXIMILIAN BECKER, connoisseur and photographer

"Since Raf left Jil, the collections, whether done by her or a design team, leave me unaffected. Neither do I dislike the whole thing, nor does it make my heart go faster by excitement. Which is the worst, obviously."
/MARY SCHERPE, founder Stil In Berlin

"At first it was nothing but the colours. To me every look was a rare berry. Listing every different look would make for an exotic fruit mix. But that moment passed when I saw the whole collection. There is a break, of course, and different shades, which results in an important diversity that is so often missed. But all personal preferences aside, there is indeed something essential missing from this collection: a real warm winter coat."

/RAPHAELA ANOUK, artist Anouk Lamm Anouk

"Jil Sander without Jil Sander. The design team, orphans left behind by Raf and Heidemarie, payed tribute to their parents. A best of with alternating soundtrack. One song dedicated to him ('Depth'), one to her ('She's Gone'). And although rich in variation and been-before ideas, there was not anything visibly remarkable - except this one pair of metallic panelled trousers."
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Cut-Coat

1. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2008
2. Lucio Fontana Concetto Spaziale, 1959

Slitted, double-layered trompe l'oeil coats that demand relevance again. Sexually precise cuts, brutally forbidden peeks. Pastel-coloured 'destroyed' canvases that demand attention through irritation.
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Now & Then XII

1. Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2014
2. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2009

Now that Jil has left once again, Raf might be in dire need for a substitute mother. Stella is embracing this moment and warmly adopting the loved, left and lost child and his minimalist ideas.
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Best Of Jil Sander

Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2000 - Spring/Summer 2014

The image of Jil Sander has always been linked with the concept of minimalism. Once reviewing fourteen years, the aesthetics do not appear so radically restraint. Complicated colour and vibrant pattern has always been a Sander trademark - an intellectual subtlety that, ad interim, had been replaced by Simons' partly risky conceptualism. Eventually, it was Simons who revived the brand's true essence and character of what everyone primarily perceived to symbolize Jil Sander. Today, for the third time, Jil Sander leaves the house she gave birth to. Most probably, this step was not a decision of simplicity but necessity - a Sander imperative.
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Image credits Catwalking