ZEN 3

1. Craig Green Spring/Summer 2015
2. Craig Green Spring/Summer 2014
3. Craig Green Fall/Winter 2013

We all love him. At first. For the walking wood and cardboard sculptures. Second. For the psychedelic dip-dye, hand-dye, hand-job. And then. For the poetry of jinbei. I am wearing him.
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Tokyo Diaries XV

A mental travel preparation.




Naruse Inokuma Architects Setagaya Flat, 2011

Moving in. A wooden box of medetative emptiness. Moving. Unfinished finished surface manipulation. Just moved in. The completeness of nothing. Moving away. The souvenir: a feeling of removal.
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Thorny

1. Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2014
2. GFF by Gianfranco Ferré Spring/Summer 2003
3. Alexander van Slobbe Spring/Summer 1999

The sleeping prince has been kissed by a rose. As graphic scribble, outline print or cut-and-paste laminate appliqué. The next bouquet of flowers best comes in the form of a pinstripe suit.
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Moiré Moanings

1. Ed Ruscha We Humans (spinach & egg white on moiré), 1974
2. Alexander van Slobbe Spring/Summer 1999
3. Ed Ruscha Magnetic (blueberry on moiré), 1974
4. Céline Spring/Summer 2011
5. Ed Ruscha Babycakes (blueberry & egg yolk on moiré), 1974
6. Rodarte Fall/Winter 2011

An unresolved trauma and my unfulfilled desire: to wear trompe l'œil metaphors. Moiré as sociologic experiment, food as paint. Letters on canvas, textile as art, clothes as buildings.
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Twombly Dialogues

1. Cy Twombly Cycnus, 1978
2. Helmut Lang Fall/Winter 2004

When looking at Cy Twombly's sculptures from 1953 to 2009 I see Helmut Lang, Rick Owens, Ann Demeulemeester. And I will attempt to compile a synchronous collection, restricted to white. Starting with a palm leaf in pleated organza.
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Post Paris XXIV

A false encyclopaedic guide to the Paris collections, presenting:
Veronique Branquinho Fall/Winter 2013

1. Veronique Branquinho Archive
2. Adriano Brusaferri Spindle tools used to calibrate organ pipes, 19th century
3. Satoshi Saikusa Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1993

Paris re-opens the chapter of False Encyclopaedia. And since Veronique Branquinho's last show was my first show, this is an appreciation post. Celebrating craft, sincerity and stringency. The colour beige, the bustier top and turtleneck, the Belgian rigor.
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Brutalism's Banquet

Photos Rick Owens

When you discover that brutalism and classicism harmonize as beautifully as the word 'liaison dangereuse'. And suddenly, the person 'Rick Owens' feels deeper, closer and more monarchic than before.
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Striation, 2012

or 'The Times Is Now, On My Own'



















Knit Dior Homme by Hedi Slimane
Turtleneck Raf Simons
Jeans Cheap Monday
Shoes Raf Simons
Vest Ardency Inn
Stool Piet Hein Eek

The belated reaction to A Short History Of Stripes In Popular Culture and Hedi Slimane's controversial return. Enriched with the subtle dosage of 'pervert priest', it is a praise for the bipolar.
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Stijl

Gerrit Rietveld Sideboard, 1919

I am currently looking for a sideboard. It should be modern, almost invisible but yet significant on closer inspection. Surrealist, weird, unexpected, maybe sexual, maybe perverse. Which model would you recommend Horst?
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