Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Trending Topics Fight
Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Camel
I am in love with every single piece from that collection. And I realized: I need this double-breasted jacket. In the colour camel. I know it's hip and trendy but I have to surrender to it. It's hip and trendy in a good way.
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Image credits Catwalking, Google
Monday, August 30, 2010
Discipline
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Weather Forecast
Alan Humphrey Bennett Graduate collection
Lately, I feel the desire to dress someone in outdoor clothes and create the image of a forest worker. With water-repellent coats, quilted vests and hiking boots. Preferably in tones of moss green, light turquoise, grey and light brown.
/HORST
Labels:
backpack,
coat,
colour,
Graduate,
green,
London,
Menswear,
outdoor,
royal collage of art,
shiny,
Sunglasses,
utility
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Things & Clouds
Last night I got a window seat assigned. Note, that I don't like window seats, caught in a tiny corner, needing to pass two other people. But: I had the most amazing view and moment in my life. Layers of clouds and the vibrating lights of London at night. Creating the texture of a Versace sequin dress.
/HORST
Friday, August 27, 2010
Multiple Personality
Images Nicholas Cairns, Kai Z Feng, Pierre Debusschere
This series perfectly illustrates my current state of mind. Torn apart between opportunities and obligations, convictions and locations. I am also still confused by the movie Duplicity and Clive Owen's adorable accent.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Reality Bites
Whyred Spring/Summer 2011
I know it looks boring, but let's be honest: That's what I will buy, that's how I actually dress. Am I destroying an illusion now? I appreciate these clothes in an everyday context. The only thing I am asking myself: Do they have to appear on a runway?
/HORST
Image credits Fashion Week by Berns
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Subtitle
Another magazine that should soon enrich my collection. Especially these two issues. It is fascinating how strinkingly well the cover artworks reflect their time and aesthetic mood. Throughout all past decades.
/HORST
Via Catch Fire
Denomination
Gabriel Stunz Spring/Summer 2011
Although the collection's title 'Gakona' refers to a small village in the mountains of Alaska, its sound and final outcome does evoke a notion of Japanese tradition. Paired with German severity and craftsmanship, it results in the emphasis of two elements, two sides, the elusiveness of belt and scarf.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Spurenelemente
Labels:
Art,
body paint,
butt,
inspiration,
metallic,
objects,
phallus,
pyramid,
sculpture,
silver,
triangle
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Forbidden Love II
I herewith declare the comeback of a fashion sin: the tribal T-shirt. Even unfashionable people don't wear it anymore. And that's our chance. Time for a statement. Time for late 90s German technowear. There is only one rule: It needs to be minimalist.
/HORST
Labels:
1990s,
Art,
Bad Taste,
collage,
comeback,
fashion sin,
German,
mood board,
tackiness,
tattoo,
trend,
tribal,
tshirt
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Big Bang Theory
Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 1991
You might have recognized that I recently developed a new addiction: Barbie & Ken Fashion. And now I actually found out who truly invented it: Helmut Lang. Unexpectedly, he beautified short skirts, plastic frills and sheer pastel dresses when I was still an innocent boy playing with Barbie and Ken.
/HORST
Labels:
1990s,
barbie fashion,
childhood,
feminity,
frills,
helmut lang,
ken fashion,
Menswear,
orange,
pastel,
plastic,
retrospective,
Spring/Summer 1991,
transparency,
Vintage,
Womenswear
#100819
Reverse
T-Shirt Helmut Lang
The latest addition to my obsessive Helmut collection. What I like most about this piece is the notion of German techno in the 90s. Besides, the print is placed onto the inside and appears mirror-inverted as it shines through the material.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
By Definitions
Photos Shirtology
I think I am allowed to post half-naked guys again, am I? I mean I haven't posted fresh meat in ages, non? Personally, I cannot remember anything like that. This is an intellectual art blog. Sure, sure.
/HORST
Labels:
1990s,
briefs,
crown,
half-naked,
Men,
shirtology,
underwear
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Inventory
The men's handbag. An item to be revived against all criticism. I don't need a weekender just to carry around Moleskine notebook, pen and tanga briefs. Am I right?
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Via Rene Schaller, Jak & Jil
Monday, August 16, 2010
Mermen & Mermaids
Top Neo Rauch, Das Gut, 2008
Bottom Unknown
When thinking of mermaids, movies like The Little Mermaid or Mermaids instantly come to one's mind. But suddenly I realized one true classic is missing: Splash with beautiful Daryl Hannah. Thanks to Neo Rauch for reminding me.
/HORST
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