Miusing Escher VII

1. Miu Miu Resort 2015
2. M.C. Escher Flying Fish (No. 73), 1949

The endless staircase built of and worn as macramé on a jungle-turned-water-turned-garden silk trousers drawing and osmosis watercolour blouse. The handbag is nothing but the supporting frame.
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Wishful Thinking #2

Front Chess Table, 2009

A table for rivalry (as self-described by the creators), this black-and-white checkered object has proven itself a valid display for naked bodies wrapped around - perfectly shown in the photography project Inside The Box by Erwin Olaf and Marcel Wanders.
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Art Interiors IV

Artworks Anette Harboe Flensburg

Paintings as interiors. The imaginary artist room is pink, black and turquoise. Furniture is cozy and inherited, lush and ornamental. Walls, mirrors and windows are inter-changeable. Floors and walls built for psychedelia. Paintings are a must. No one wants to live there, except me. Now we know what sur-reality means.
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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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A Short History Of Stripes In Popular Culture VIII

1. Todd Chilton Backslash, 2010
2. Todd Chilton Wiggle, 2010
3. Todd Chilton Untitled (Black White Over Under), 2008
4. Acne Spring/Summer 2013

The stripe as double triptych. And clothes as op-art. Have you given in to its principles, yet? Have you found the stripe that suits you best? Irregular, curved or narrow? Which type are you? This is a psycho test.
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"Prada Banality", Post-Painterly Art III

or 'Fashion For Intellectuals' (FFI)



1. Sascha Braunig Nets, 2012
2. Prada Fall/Winter 2013

Her fashion was not 'mainstream' nor 'everyday'. It was the dishevelled proposal for a genius. The kind of artist who does not have to search for ideas, tactics or strategies. Miuccia Prada is talking to the ones who do what they have to do. Those with a different vision. A different sight. Another world view.
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Worm Therapy

1. Proenza Schouler Fall/Winter 2013
2. Ettore Sottsass Bacterio, 1978
3. Proenza Schouler Fall/Winter 2013

With his pattern design for the Memphis Milano movement, Ettore Sottsass turned geometric forms into texture, and laminate became textile. What originally had an op-art effect on furniture, turns into fake fur on clothes.
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Pervert Priest, 2012

or 'Miusing Myself'





























Collar piece Miu Miu
Shirt Valentino
Jacket Dior Homme
Necklace Maison Martin Margiela x H&M

Once you define a theme and establish it as core of an unapologetic and atheistic world order, your beliefs are more than just denominations. They become manifestations of a self-centred religion.
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Serious Moonlight

1. Andy Eaton Walked Out This Morning, Black Fall 2012
2. Alasdair McLellan Tomorrow Is Another Day, AnOther Man Fall 2012
3. Roberto Cavalli Spring/Summer 2013
4. Moschino Cheap & Chic Spring/Summer 2013
5. Unknown
6. Ola Rindal Rodeo Fall 2012

As indicated before, we are approaching another impossible 70s re-revival. Purple paisley and orange op-art. A combination that works best in pairs. Roberto has to finish what Miuccia begun.
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A Short History Of Stripes In Popular Culture VI

or 'How Horst Influences Fashion'






1. Acne Spring/Summer 2013
2. Jonathan Saunders Spring/Summer 2013
3. Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2013
4. Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2013
5. Sportmax Spring/Summer 2013

Each season, at least five design houses follow the call and demands of Horst. Thus, a fine, black and white line became apparent throughout the collections. As graphic blocks or eye-flickering op-art. One better looks twice.
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Image credits Catwalking