Pole, 2013

or 'Not Safe For World'

T-Shirt Raf Simons
Shorts Comme des Garçons
Underwear Barcode

Madonna's 'Sex Book' by Steven Meisel, banned Calvin Klein commercials and Paris Hilton's sex tape - who is the judge, who's the voyeur? How can 'offensive' image material be so pleasing?
/HORST

A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XI

1. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
2. Thomas Bayrle Feuer Im Welzen (Fire In The Wheat), 1970
3. Unknown
4. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
5. Thomas Bayrle Edition Jake Wie Hose (Naked Lunch), 1970
6. Thomas Bayrle Feuer Im Welzen (Fire In The Wheat), 1970
7. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
8. Thomas Bayrle Edition Jake Wie Hose (Naked Lunch), 1970

Investigating on the motif of 'naive repetition' and the typology of 'pixel pin-ups'. Reviewing: the suppressed eroticism of Raf Simons' intarsia knits in dialogue with Thomas Bayrle's nonchalant erotica. A lesson in 'neutralized sex' by the means of oversimplification/denial.
/HORST