A Discourse: The 90s Woman Pt.VI

Photos Steven Meisel

The 90s woman is dubious. Switching the gender mode spontaneously. Changing strength and masculinity into vulnerable and purest feminity. Lost in emotion and reverie. Abandoning severity and devoting herself to the glitz in life.
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Previous parts A Discourse: The 90s Woman

Form

Could there be any better proof that severe geometry suits the human body best? I wonder what attracts me about pure shape? It might be the negation of the male respective female figure. The absolute priority of the clothes before the body.
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Der Mantel

A coat is always fashionable, also worn with nothing underneath when the temperatures rise.
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Kitten Love XIX

Linda and Naomi: living proof for the fact that kitten love makes a topmodel. Meanwhile, Christy takes the counterpart wearing butchy Levi's 501 and an oversized shirt.
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Explicit Structure

Who would've thought my beloved Brigitte has somthing in common with Linda and Christy? I know exactly why I am wearing my super bleached Brigitte Nielsen memorial blonde. She is just unreachable high and deserves admiration. Believe me.
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Lindaconda

I found something! I found something! Linda in snakeskin. Gloves and leggings - you don't need anything else.
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Triangle Topmodels

Versace Advertisement March 1991
Models Christy Turlington, Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista
Photographer Herb Ritts

This is the 90s bling thing. Thanks Josi.
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Jil Evangelista

When 2 obsessions become 1 it's heaven for little Horsti.
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A Discourse: The 90s Woman Pt.III

Top Ulli Stein Meier, Lynne Koester, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista
Bottom Harper's Bazaar, September 1992 by Patrick Demarchelier

She uses her female attraction to seduce and reach her aim. But she also negates her sexual identity by cutting her hair off and questioning gender roles. She is a woman is a boy is a man.
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A Discourse: The 90s Woman Pt.I

Female image and identity in the 90s. Black and white. Innocence and seduction. Sexual desire and minimalistic restraint. Horst investigates on how fashion defined a whole decade, and a whole generation of women. And to be honest, I will be blind on one eye and only see what I want to see. Because the 90s weren't always pretty.
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