Work Bitch

Britney Spears - Work Bitch 2013

I am sorry to break it to you but this is going to be history. The bitch is back. And she is working it. Reversed triangle platforms (Silent Hill), desert car scenes (Spice Girls) and bisexual slave action (Madonna) are interwined in Britney's self-referential pop mesh. Add a perfume bottle product placement and pop becomes POP.
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The Nude Portrait IV

category f.1) interior as group portrait

1. Richard Hamilton Hotel du Rhone, 2005
2. The Sims Nude Clothing
3. The Sims Gay Couple

category f.2) standing, reflection in mirror

4. Richard Hamilton Descending Nude, 2006
5. The Sims Untitled (Sims 3)

category f.3) sitting, at desk

6. Richard Hamilton An Annunciation, 2006
7. Second Life Reasonable Desires Underwear

category f.4) leaving the shower


8. Richard Hamilton A Mirrorical Return, 1998
9. The Sims Nude Patch (Sims 3)

category f.5) male nude, posing

10. Richard Hamilton Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956
11. Second Life Laguna Bay Nude Beach
12. Second Life Angelus Nude

The digital nude. The virtual nude. The rendered 3D nude. Resulting in a fictive hyper-realist portrait of the non-existent. Psyche portraits, phantom portraits, wet fantasy depictions.
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View previous parts The Nude Portrait I-III

Concrete Living II

1. Acne Paris & Raf Simons Osaka
2. Acne New York & Jil Sander New York
3. Acne Paris & Raf Simons Tokyo

Venus de Milo as symbol for the modern woman, as icon of orientation, ideals, beauty (q.v. Acne Paris). A strict and steel version of Daedalus' gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur reconstructed by Raf Simons & Gernaine Kruip (q.v. Jil Sander New York). Sterling Ruby's splatter theme and Roger Hiorns's 'crying tears' triangle wallpaper - echoing this disorientation (q.v. Raf Simons Toyko and Osaka).
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Garage Martin Margiela II

Maison Martin Margiela x H&M Fall 2012

And the collection has been revealed. Am I disappointed as a man? Maybe. Since I rarely ever wear brown, 90% of the pieces disqualify. Did I wish for white garments and trompe-l'œil pieces instead. Definitely.
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Via All The Hot Stuff

Hexagon, Heptagon

1. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2009
2. René Magritte Palace Of Curtains III, 1928-29

From the series: Things I deeply regret. Not buying. Beweeping the brass, silver or mirror brooch. 2009 is my own failure. 1929 is the failure of birth and time. Would I have invested in Magritte?
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