Mutant Engineering III

Photos Unknown



After we've survived the nuclear apocalypse, we will only wear plastic raincoats to repel the sour rain. Blue powder will protect our pale skin from exfoliation. Maybe that's the truth.

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Mutant Engineering II

Photos Viviane Sassen, Marcelo Capizzano

One day, aliens will save the human race from extinction. They will collect and exhibit our precious relicts of art and culture. And put us in cute little outdoor parks. Women will collect solar energy and men will filter the water.
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Mutant Engineering

1. Mark Borthwick for Purple Magazine vs. Lars Englund
2. Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 1997 vs. Cocky Eek Folkert
3. Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Cocky Eek Folkert

We know life will be transformed. And things change rapidly. Futurism's most drastic misconception is its projection upon another time, another dimension. Unfortunately, it's already 2011.
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Other Landscapes

Artworks David Schnell

Global warming and geoengineering. Today left me with doubt and fear. Glaciers are melting. And with them knowledge and culture will be eliminated. Please re-evaluate your actions. Right now. Not in ten years, not in thirty.
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The Doomed

Cheap Monday Fall/Winter 2011

We are already living in a cyber world. We have digital avatars on Facebook, supposedly representing ourselves. We do live a post-apocalyptic life. And don't even need an Armageddon. So let's dress if there was no tomorrow. For god's sake!
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Image credits MBFW Stockholm, MMCIII

Cyberdog

Photos Jean Baptiste Mondino
Styling Judy Blame
Magazine The Face, August 1993

One might have already noticed a certain fascination for tribal tattoos. But a Horst knows no mercy. And he wants it all. He wants it back. Here and now. What am I talking about? Piercings and techno grunge fetish wear.
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Fantastic Planet

La Planète sauvage 1973

In love. From the very first second. Social criticism emerging from a Trojan horse known as surrealism. Masters and slaves. Destruction and self-destruction. Incredible imagery. And finally: Useful lessons in keeping a pet...
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Sheer Stripe Fight

Louise Goldin Spring/Summer 2011 vs. The Fifth Element

Hardly any collection images have found their way to the outside world. A well kept secret and mystery. Until Rihanna appeared in a sheer, striped combat dress. An evident tribute to one of the best movies of our times.
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Image credits Showstudio

Colour Code

Colour codes 8a925c, 4f3f6f, c8514d, d0a388, 1e363f, c8d5e4

Pick your future hair colour here.
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Honest Proposal

Calvin Klein Spring/Summer 2011

In fact, nothing is nicer than the urgent impulse to write about something. The need to show and discuss it. Or to praise it. I always believed in the Calvin Klein man. And I never got disappointed. So, will you marry me?
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Image credits Catwalking

Metropolis 2010

Photos Karl Lagerfeld

I more and more fall for the photographic genius of Karl Lagerfeld. Especially in regard of his continuation and adaption of utopian fantasies known from modern ancestors such as Fritz Lang and Thierry Mugler. Pursuing the concept of the robot woman.
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Alienesque II

Photos Dazed & Confused, Unknown

Blue-haired and green-skinned. As human beauty allown does not fulfill our contemporary needs, the foreign and artificial conquers our heart. The fake and surreal is what we are longing for. A fantasy of self-deception.
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Anaphylaxis

Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2010

Promises. Closer. Slits. Legs. Sound. Space. Twitch. Jumpsuits. Robots. Cybersuits. Sometimes there is no rational explanation, just feelings. And conviction. The strong belief that this is just right.
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Image credits Catwalking