Gaultier Questions

1. Jean-Paul Gaultier Fall/Winter 1991
2. Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2009

For this series, the pairing of images does not implicate the process of replication, duplication or copying. Rather, it identifies related ideas and their processing into connatural garments. Thoughts?
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Kitten Love XXXII

Top Givenchy Haute Couture by Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 1997
Bottom Gustav Klimt

They asked me how I knew my true love was true. I of course replied, something here inside cannot be denied. When your heart's on fire, you must realize: Smoke gets in your eyes.
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Coronation

Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2005 & Helmut Lang backstage by Jürgen Teller

Germany has a new king. It might only be relevant for a confined target group but I'd like to admit the joyous consumption of a cannibalistic product known as trash TV known as Jungle Camp.
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Deconstruction

Peter Fischli and David Weiss vs. Alexander McQueen

The white platform. Plain canvas for performance and installation. The static origin of exposure. Staging the mere object as fetish or transforming the living object as sculpture. Alexander McQueen in The Bridgegroom Stripped Bare by Nick Knight.
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Sincerity

Deep and moving. Shocking and breathtaking. Alexander McQueen 1969-2010.
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Hallucination

Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2010

My in-bed-front-row report continues. With superposed patterns and optical effects that increase my dizziness and blurred view. Techno-organic textures that evoke H.R. Giger fever dreams.
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Riposte

Fencing. I'm overzealous about the attitude, the aesthetics, the fashion. Ballet-like movements, athletes in white body-concious suits, wire net protection helmets. It's raw, it's sensual and it creates crispy, mulitplied images of pace in my mind.
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Assemblage

Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2009.

Plastic foil, white cans and traces of red lipstick. I just coincidentally discoverd these incredible details, re-using trash as head pieces. Other 'hats' include car rims and bubble wrap.
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The Spell

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2009

This collection was quite ingenious. Especially referring to one aspect: the slimming use of colour and construction. In fact, it is one of his strongest collections. Decent and yet impulsive.
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Beaches

Above Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2008
Below Prada Spring/Summer 2010

Two collections that resemble each other. Alexander and Miuccia. Recalling ironic seaside projection prints. Just a coincidence I suspect. Beautiful nonetheless.
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Detail Shock

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2009

I really like what Alexander McQueen did for SS09: Great prints, structured shapes, references to the dirndl. But what is this? A chicken feet? Can someone please send Magdalena Frackowiak to pedicure? Or is it just the shoes? Ugliness brought to a new dimension.
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9 Looks

Spring/Summer 2009 so far. Horst likes:


Light Washed Denim Calvin Klein


Sheer Shirts Costume National


Embarrassing Swimwear Alexander McQueen


Oversized Layering Prada


Short Jackets Prada


Bodybuilder Pants Vivienne Westwood


Belly & Gradients Prada


Shiny Shorts Nerd Dolce & Gabbana


Grandad Knitwear Missoni

I am so looking forward to STHLM Fashion Week.
Swedish sausages to come soon...
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