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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Fashion Charts V

1. Simone Rocha Fall/Winter 2014

2. Sportmax Fall/Winter 2014

3. Gucci Fall/Winter 2014

Longing for super snakeskin. Colourized and streamlined. Total perfection (Simone), total adaption (Sportmax), total redemption (Gucci). Milan and London is dressing for the transgender woman at heart.
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Globetrotters, or: A Collector's Collection

1. Dior Fall/Winter 2013
2. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
3. Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
4. Dior Spring/Summer 2014
5. Dior Fall/Winter 2013 & Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014
6. Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2013 & Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby Fall/Winter 2014

I love the fact that, in a way, the collaboration of Raf Simons/Sterling Ruby has delivered a masculinized, messier, multiplied version of the Dior cosmos. And now, for women as for men, it is all about the statement shoe and the statement bag.
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Image credits Style.com

Paths Towards Modernity II

A fictive documentary in art and fashion.

1. Georg Baselitz Familienbild Ancora, 2009
2. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2007
3. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2007
4. Georg Baselitz Victor Brauner Besucht Dix, 2008
5. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2000
6. Georg Baselitz Und Die Ganze Folklore, 2009
7. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2011
8. Georg Baselitz Besuch In Ekely, 2005
9. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2011
10. Georg Baselitz Ekely, 2004
11. Jil Sander 1990
12. Georg Baselitz Untitled, 1998
13. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2004
14. Georg Baselitz Elke I, 1975
15. Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2003
16. Georg Baselitz Tränenkopf, 1986
17. Georg Baselitz Gut Grau, 2009
18. Jil Sander 1966

Georg Baselitz and Jil Sander/Raf Simons share a rawness, immediacy and severity. Mostly depicting/proposing men in suits and women in primary colour dresses. They are minimalist, restrained and, yet, messed up. The purity of imperfection.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XIII

1. Raymond Pettibon No Title, 1987
2. noeditions Spring/Summer 2014
1. Raymond Pettibon No Title (Entering Marlboro County), 2005
2. noeditions Spring/Summer 2014
1. Raymond Pettibon To Wit, 2013
2. noeditions Spring/Summer 2014

The quick stroke. Who does not love the gentleness, the warmth and promptness of a gestural moment. The strong and intense handcraft of Raymond Pettibon. Expressing everything within the rapid act of expressive self-unloading. The collection artwork of no editions. Big, raw brushstrokes, applied within a few seconds.
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Woman With Furry Slippers (After Oppenheim)

1. Céline Spring/Summer 2013
2. Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2011
3. Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2005
4. Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2011
5. Comme des Garçons
6. Céline Spring/Summer 2013 & Albert Einstein At Home, 1933-55

What has happened at Céline? Intendendly atrocious, yet not shockingly new. See also Venus de Milo with Drawers (1916) by Salvador Dalí and Fur Lined Tea Cup (1936) by Meret Oppenheim. So why does it still provoke detest or at least irritation?
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Image credits Catwalking, Style.com, Gillett Griffin