Sherman Questions VI

1. Cindy Sherman Untitled #157, 1986
2. Madeleine Vionnet 1930s

Sherman's images of ugliness reach their climax with a 1986 character transformation. The woman is transformed into an antropomorphed hybrid, recalling motives of ancient mythology. Of course, this jinxed figure is posing in an historical archive piece by Madelaine Vionnet, a woman known for dressing puppets.
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Image credits Cindy Sherman, Unknown

M + MMM III

1. René Magritte La Magie Noire, 1935
2. Maison Martin Margiela Spring/Summer 2010

Surrealist camouflage in thigh-high boots. Why can't just every woman dress like an art exhibition or private gallery viewing. Wearing the artwork or vice versa. This may also apply to men, of course.
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M + MMM II

1. René Magritte Le Modele Rouge, 1939
2. Maison Martin Margiela Tabi shoes

A feeling of the awkward. That, nonetheless, steadily develops a certain fascination. And one question remains: Who will be walking in these shoes. Or will these shoes wear their walker?
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A Short History Of The Bandeau Top In Popular Culture

1. Prada Lookbook Spring/Summer 2009
2. Salvador Dali Venus de Milo with drawers, 1916
3. Tamara de Lempicka La Chemise Rose, 1933
4. Prada Spring/Summer 2001, Fall/Winter 2006, Spring/Summer 2009 & Spring/Summer 2012

An embrace of the feminine figure, the voluptuous form. Just like a Petrarchan sonnet, Miuccia's bandeau caresses the woman's firm breasts, articulating admiration for the sensitive and untouched. A signature idea that secretely strives for mainstream acceptance.
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Dalí's Dolls

1. Surrealist Exhibition, Paris 1938
2. Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2009
2. Vogue Cover, April 1944
3. Portrait by George Platt Lynes

Handsome young Dalí and his mannequin. Foam wigs and breast cutouts. The former Rei Kawakubo? Vogue cover and lobster bikini. How would his hypothetical Spring/Summer 2013 collection look like?
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Two Flowers

1. André Kertész Melancholic Tulip, 1939
2. Driu & Tiago Citizen K Homme, 2009
3. Albert Renger-Patzsch Gemeiner Löwenzahn, 1925-29
4. Alasdair McLellan 'Suburbia' POP Magazine, 2006

The fashion editorial and 'Neue Sachlichkeit' (New Objectivity), the monochrome portrait and the flower still life. An honest, melancholic view on beauty betwen tulip torso and dandelion hair.
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Laminated Veneer Fight

Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2012 vs. 1935 Retro Kitchen

Like most of the times, Proenza Schouler looks like the pictogram of everyday reality. Brutal in its choice of pattern, postmodern in its distant reference to the aesthetic codes of mainstream. Put shortly: American Kitchen Camp.
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Would Could

1. Hyllie Water Tower, Sweden
2. 1931 Water Tower, Zecc Architects, The Netherlands

Unfortunate in finding a moderate living space. Repeatedly confronted with identically renovated, mass-market compliant apartments. While only yearning for a pure, strictly functional space.
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On Display

1. Hans Bellmer, La Toupie
2. Wilhelm Freddie, Le Bureau de Zola

After being at a surrealist objects exhibition, the task for the weekend is as follows: Find random objects. Glue them together. Paint them white. Maybe I will succeed, maybe I won't.
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Seance

Lanvin Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Hans Bellmer

The day I am reborn again I will become a surrealist painter. Spiritual findings on a friday night. Justin is singing Tearing Up My Heart. And maybe I have to re-invent myself when waking up tomorrow?
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Holistic Triptych II

Top Pierre Cardin, Suit 1979
Center Theo van Doesburg, Arithmetic Composition 1930
Bottom Vico Magistretti, Kuta Table 1978

A suit, a painting, a lamp. The triangle, the circle, the square. A man could reduce his belongings in life to these three things. And their endless variation/combination/repetition.
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Rue de Rivoli

Designs Madeleine Vionnet

I am counting the days. Until my heart will beat be in Paris again. I will taste Ladurée macaroons. I will smell the perfume of fashion editors. And I will behold the beauty of past and future fashion design.
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Image credits Les Arts Décoratifs