Tokyo Diaries XIV

A mental travel preparation.

1. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2011 2007
2. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2007
3. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 1998

Another example of reversion as cultural adaption. Printed on the back, the pin-up of Western sex-charged trash culture is turned into a decorative token, treated with the same respect as a true masterpiece (or Dalí).
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Posing With Cars

1. Steven Klein L.A. Portfolio, L'Uomo Vogue 2006
2. Steven Klein Spread Eagle, Dutch Magazine 2002
3. Steven Meisel Speed Racer, Vogue Italia 1997
4. Thom Browne & Zac Posen Infiniti Q50, 2013

Steven M. and Steven K. are united by their love for hot wheels and naked flesh on cold steel. The car as metaphor for a 'large penis' has established itself as fashion accessory and, lately, statement collector's piece. Car pin-ups Thom Browne and Zac Posen agree.
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Further Attempt

Re:Quest Models Show package Spring/Summer 2013

The incredibly poignant answer to the famously banned Calvin Klein commercial. A male model show package in denim and wood. How appropriate.
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Glitter Steroids

1. Nick Knight Beauty & The Beast, Arena Homme Plus #34
2. Sølve Sundsbø Think Pink!, Love Magazine #8

Love Magazine presents their first ever male centrefold pin-up. Jonathan Saunders. Smoking. Arena Homme Plus shows a double lipstick act for the cover story of issue #34: Heroes & Pin-Ups.
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Simulation, Stimulation

1. Andreas Angelidakis Hand House, 2010
2. Franz Roh Hommage à Max Ernst, 1935
3. Man Ray Profile and Hands, 1932

'Case Study House attempts to sum up a portrait of Los Angeles as a city of infrastructural crisis, impending disaster and celebrity paranoia. (...) Now the gigantic hand (...) appears to be coming out of the water, elegantly holding a serving tray, as if the Statue of Liberty became a waitress and her hand holds up a building, perched over the cliff like a billboard.' - Andreas Angelidakis
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