Grand Poop

LAZOSCHMIDL Spring/Summer 2015

A collection that follows the storyline of contemporary performance art. Tracking down the fascination of body liquids such as piss, shit, sperm and spunk, the garments turn the perverse universe of Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy and Gilbert & George into rich textures and embroidery. Stains are re-interpreted as crystal applications on silk dupion and screenprint on organza. The obscene turns into decadence.
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Sweat And Stains, 2014

or 'Sperm, Spunk And Shit'

All clothes LAZOSCHMIDL
Belt Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

Not your average menswear-cum-couture. Debuting their first capsule collection for Spring/Summer 2015, LAZOSCHMIDL approach the post-body fetishism of contemporary art (that is: body liquids). Poop is reconfigured as screenprint artwork and piss is elevated as crystallized stain. Hand-sown, hand-painted, hand-embellished. Shop now!
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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

Tokyo Diaries VI

A mental travel preparation.




Mikio Sakabe Fall/Winter 2013

"When the world turns pink and boys wear lipstick, frilled diapers and duvet night gowns, we are covered in the cold sweat of erotic nightmares." - he nods and decides to not pack any underwear. The closing of his suitcase is followed by a pondering silence.
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Prada Fantasies, Epilogue

1. Prada Spring/Summer 2008
2. Prada Fall/Winter 2014

Of course, there are also Prada womenswear collections that I missed. But yet, they do not remain out of reach of our collective heart forever. They return, they come back. Great Prada collections.
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A Short History Of The Plastic Raincoat In Popular Culture VI

1. Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2014
2. Thomas Bayrle Produzione Bayrle Coats, 1967-68
3. Prada Fall/Winter 2002
4. Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2014

Never too late, never gone. The coloured plastic raincoat takes us back to 1949, 1967 and 2002. It is true that the future will always look old-fashioned. And the present will always feel like the past.
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Triadism

1. Michaël Borremans Hornet, 2008
2. Michaël Borremans The Apron, 2009
3. Michaël Borremans Lakei, 2010
4. Christopher Shannon Spring/Summer 2014
5. Theyskens' Theory Spring/Summer 2014
6. Michaël Borremans A2, 2004
7. Michaël Borremans Red Hand, Green Hand, 2010
8. Michaël Borremans The Mirror, 2001

Building humanity out of fragments. See also Theyskens' Theory and Christopher Shannon for Spring/Summer 2014. Bodies as triptych panels, partly sheer or horizontally colour blocked.
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Twombly Dialogues III

1. Cy Twombly Untitled, 1983
2. Ann Demeulemeester Fall/Winter 2013

Ann Demeulemeester fell in love with her partner espying one little detail: a feather attached to his clothes. The feather soon became an essential design element that can be regarded as a cipher for her personal touch within a collection.
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