Paths Towards Modernity V

1. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
2. Richard Prince Untitled (Man's Hand On Pocket With Watch), 1980
3. Richard Prince Cowboys & Girlfriends, 1992
4. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
5. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
6. Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy), 2001
7. Richard Prince Untitled (Original), 2009
8. Richard Prince Untitled, 2008
9. Versace 1980s
10. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
11. Versace Fall/Winter 2014
12. Richard Prince Nurse With Wings (Detail), 2003
13. Versace Fall/Winter 2013
14. Versace Fall/Winter 1994
15. Richard Prince Untitled, 2007

Richard Prince created the art practice of 'appropriation'. Regarded as one of the main players/actors of The Picture Generation he took pictures of pictures and declared them artworks of their own. With motorbike cowboys and vinyl nurses as subject, Prince plays with stereotypes and superstages them as cult of popular mainstream culture. And when cliché and sexism collide, Gianni and Donatella are not afar.
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Versus Versus Slimane

1. Versus Spring/Summer 1996
2. Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2014
3. Versus Spring/Summer 1996
4. Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2014
5. Versus Spring/Summer 1996
6. Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2013

What Gianni Versace's Versus has in common with Hedi Slimane's Saint Laurent is a love for youth - a playful youth with attitude: rich, reckless and borderlining towards the tacky. Things that the young want to wear while being criticized for it.
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Versus Versus Raf

1. Versus Fall/Winter 1997
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2013
3. Versus Spring/Summer 2000
4. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2008
5. Versus Spring/Summer 2001
6. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2008

After watching #HouseOfVersace, it becomes apparent how influential the designs really were. Especially the Versus line well functions as mind platform for Miu Miu, Hedi Slimane's Saint Laurent, J.W. Anderson and, eventually, Raf Simons.
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Petit Prince

J.W. Anderson x Versus Resort 2014

An emergency announcement proclaiming: Versus is dead, long live Versus. The uniform for our new male sub-nobility includes bejeweled tiaras and bustier keyhole tops.
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Image credits Style.com

Lamé

1. Adam Plucinski Afterparty, 2013
2. Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2004
3. Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell in Versace "Diamonds Are Forever" 1999
4. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott Boyish, Love Magazine 2013
5. Prada Fall/Winter 2013
6. Rick Owens Fall/Winter 2010 & Fall/Winter 2008
7. Ann Demeulemeester Fall/Winter 2006

Silver and gold makes a pretty couple. One thing, we all agree on: Miuccia and Rick, Helmut and Ann, Donatella and Horst. The power couples of fashion. Metallic lamé as power dressing for the 2010s.
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