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.
/HORST

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.
/HORST

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.
/HORST

Image credits Style.com

A Short History Of The Plastic Raincoat In Popular Culture V

or 'How Horst Influences Fashion'






1. Nina Ricci Spring/Summer 2013
2. Emilio Pucci Spring/Summer 2013
3. Holly Fulton Spring/Summer 2013
4. Valentino Spring/Summer 2013
5. Versus Spring/Summer 2013

Each season, at least five design houses follow the call and demands of Horst. Owing to a subliminal kind of personal agenda, the plastic raincoat has regained its relevance. How crystal clear.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking

Laced Up IV

1. Ann Demeulemeester Fall/Winter 2011
2. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2012
3. Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2001
4. Versus Fall/Winter 2012

Wafting circumspectly from lace to lacing. Trying to figure out its (sexual) appeal. An attempt of explanation: closure that reveals, skin remains uncovered. It cannot be coincidence lacing is preferably being placed on women's cleavage and men's crotch.
/HORST