Rub + Rubbing + Clubbing

Maison Martin Margiela Spring/Summer 2015

The most amazing menswear collection that has happened in a long time. And although the Rosso Diesel system has taken ownership, the team around Matthieu Blazy delivers high quality true to the eponymous founder.
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Graduate Charts II

1. Asai Andrew Ta CSM BA Graduate Collection

2. Harry Evans CSM BA Graduate Collection

3. Flora Cadzow CSM BA Graduate Collection

They are coming. Mummified youth culture and shredded patchwork phantoms, miraculously not falling apart (Asai). They are twisted. Historic crochet sisters and fanatical knit nuns. Meet Marie Pearl Harbor (Harry). They are angry. Transparent tattoo bikers and religious tomboy boxers (Flora).
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Image credits Vogue

Paths Towards Modernity IV

A fictive documentary in art and fashion.





















1. Tadanori Yokoo Fuji Junko, 1991
2. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
3. Tadanori Yokoo Throw Away Your Books, 1967
4. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
5. Tadanori Yokoo Nishikicho, 2004
6. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
7. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
8. Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 1998
9. Tadanori Yokoo Genka (Illusory Flowers), 1975
10. Tadanori Yokoo Genka (Illusory Flowers), 1975
11. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2009
12. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
13. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
14. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2009
15. Tadanori Yokoo Genka (Illusory Flowers), 1975

At first glance, Yohji Yamamoto's latest collection felt like a departure.Towards tattoo and tribal, psychodelia and visual shock. Recurrent motifs: skulls, roses, serpents. In fact, it was not a change of methodology, nor psychology. Instead of covering everything in black dye/ink, the inner essence and tradition of Japanese visual culture was made visible. Yamamoto revealed himself (as friend of Tadanori Yokoo); of course only to those who remember.
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A Short History Of Typography In Popular Culture VIII

1. Steven Meisel Vogue Italia, 2000
2. Albert Oehlen I 10, 2010
3. Dior Spring/Summer 2001
4. Albert Oehlen I 33, 2013
5. Albert Oehlen I 28, 2011
6. Christian Lacroix Fall/Winter 2001

For a limited time only, we are offering a special high fashion discount. 5% off Lacroix. 5€ for Dior. It's a steal. Albert Oehlen went for prosecco, pillows and olive oil instead. Please keep the receipt.
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Naked, 2012

or 'What You Get Is What You See'

Top Maison Martin Margiela x H&M
Trousers Ann Demeulemeester
Belt Maison Martin Margiela x H&M
Coat Jil Sander

Upon public pressure and repeated request, I am posing completely nude. Exposing my trompe l'œil tattoos on bare skin. Sheer trousers cinched with an invisible belt. Only protected from outside views by a see-through coat.
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Till The World Ends

1. Gosha Rubchinskiy Fall/Winter 2012
2. Matt LeBlanc
3. Mariano Vivanco Dennis Manzoni in Alexander McQueen

Things and images I always wanted to share with you. Maybe it is time to look for new icons. Physically and graphically. Gosha Rubchinskiy could be the physical, faux tattoo the graphical one.
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Image credits Dazed Digital, Unknown

Forbidden Love X

Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2000

I would like to remind you of something: Everything is right, everything is allowed if Helmut Lang has done it as well. We should all follow his brave, repeatedly noteworthy example.
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