The Nude Portrait

category a.1) sitting, hands in lap



1. Matteo Montanari
2. Alasdair McLellan
3. Johnny Angel by Pat Milo, 1960s

category a.2) lying, body twisted

1. Karl Lagerfeld
2. Willy Vanderperre
3. Cody Chandler

category a.3) standing, side view

1. Alasdair McLellan
2. Sølve Sundsbø
3. Herb Ritts

category b) back view, arms flexing

1-3. Robert Mapplethorpe

category c.1) standing, left arm up

1. David by Michelangelo, 1501-1504
2. David Gandy by Mariano Vivanco
3. Tony Ward by Mariano Vivanco

category c.2) frontal, arms (almost) down



1. Alasdair McLellan
2. Bruce Weber
3. Iggy Pop by Gerard Malanga, 1971

When does a portrait define as a nude portrait? Category a) reveals nothing at all, category b) features a bare butt cheek, while categgory c) reveals primary sexual characteristics. Covered or full frontal, all images provoke the illusion of touch. One criterion for the nude portrait.
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Derezzed

Chanel Pre-Fall 2011

Unexpectedly it finally happened: I like Chanel. The luxurious, overboard, baroque, all-over embellished and jewelized. The twin-set becomes a trinket. Ich habe es nicht erwartet.
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Image credits Style.com, Stylerumor.com

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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Obsessive Fixation

Karl Lagerfeld The Beauty of Violence

After Metamorphoses of an American, Karl enlights us with another photographic examination of male beauty. As his muse and latest protégé appears Baptiste Giabiconi. A book that will surely serve as nice addition to any private library.
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Cycle Of Youth

Photos Karl Lagerfeld

Metamorphoses of an American is on its way to me. Four clothbound hardcover books, foil stamped with tipped-in image on the front, housed in a handmade slipcase. 1144 pages. 864 tritone plates.
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Undress

Photos Karl Lagerfeld, Unknown

This is my favourite moment when a man is taking off his clothes.
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Early Morning

Photos Karl Lagerfeld

Satisfaction. Now even I love Karl Lagerfeld. For obvious reasons.
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Via Just Jaiden James

Belgian Hot White Chocolate

As fenke commented in our Chritian Wijnant feature "Belgian fashion is just great". And the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp always stands for excellent graduates such as bruno Pieters who worked as assistant for labels like Martin Margiela or Christian Lacroix Haute Couture. In march 2006 Karl Lagerfeld photographed bruno for “Madame Figaro” magazine. The photoshoot featured 30 of Paris best designers...


But there are two things I don't like: the model and the shoes...
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