Poignant Surrender

1. 'Helmut Lang 10 Year Tribute' by Terry Richardson for Arena Homme +
2. Yves Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2012
3. 'Andi Loves Me Not' by Mark Rabadan

You got chain mail. Stefano Pilati presumably sent us the softest translation of a very hard idea. Thus submitting his final offer of seduction. The heartbreaking conclusion of a never-ending fight for acceptance and acknowledgement.
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Balenciaga Questions XII

1. Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2009
2. Ports 1961 Fall/Winter 2012

Some collections appear as a congregation of Balenciaga stencils. Traced and re-assembled throughout various looks, the result is avoiding evident relation to its original source. The re-contextualization of Nicolas Ghesquière.
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Case of Recurrence II

Givenchy Fall/Winter 2012

Oh wait, the studded shirt has already come back. Resurrected by the hands of Riccardo Tisci. Enhanced, enriched and enlarged by the embellished Minotaur nose ring. Anyways, I still want the Prada!
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Image credits GQ.com

Case of Recurrence

Prada Fall/Winter 2009

The ways of desire are eratically irrational. Suddenly you are confronted with the wishful thought of owning the studded shirt from Prada Fall/Winter 2009. But maybe there is someone who has it and is over it?
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Image credits GQ.com

Born Slippy

Bomber jacket Motorking by Michiko Koshino
Suit jacket Whyred
Mesh tank Helmut Lang
Coin necklace Ann Demeulemeester
Leather jeans H&M

Following the tradion of David Bowie, Moby, Placebo, Natalie Imbruglia and the Spice Girls, I chose a Michiko Koshino archive piece for my latest performance in mesh, rubber and leather.
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Pierced Souls

Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2009

When an idea of 1990s youth culture is reborn and reshaped. Thin, elongated and richly embellished with crystals and pearls. Instable, light structures that reawaken the desire for belly piercings.
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Desired #3

Metal Shelf Habitat

For my forensic psychiatric kitchen experiments, proper equipment is utmost crucial. The person who accomplishes its delivery to my future home will be invited to witness my daily cooking routine wearing a water-repellent PVC apron.
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Mean While

Ports 1961 Fall/Winter 2011

While compiling the perfect steel kitchen and being restricted to a range of plastic fantastic design elements, I invite you to have a detailed view on the collection shown above. Depicting the very best use and placement of metal.
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Nacreous Lustre

1. Sean & Seng Numéro September 2011
2. Maison Martin Margiela Spring/Summer 2009

I'd like to remind everyone that there are garments endorsed with small square or circular elements that reflect the light. And they would like to be worn. More often. By women and most definitely by men.
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Shilver

Shirt Bruno Pieters
Collar tips Josef Lazo x Javier Moreno Frías
Pin Maison Martin Margiela
Bracelet Juun J.

Personal note: this site will undergo rethinking. In an act of theoretical amputation, parts will be removed, others will remain. Therefore, I kindly request your patience and support.
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Übermensch

Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2012

The minimalist energy of crunchy white robes, graphic artwork and 3D sleeve shapes achieved what houses like Jil Sander, Céline and Calvin Klein usually aim for. While staying true to who he is, Rick exceeded all of them.
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Evolution

1. Christopher Kane Spring/Summer 2012

2. Lebbeus Woods Radical Reconstruction, 1997

3. Roderick Hietbrink The Others, 2011



Interstellar clouds have been replaced by dystopian tube structures. The living organism covered in metallic stretch velvet. In an absurd surrounding, the ironic remains. Survival of the fittest.

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Welcome To The Camp

1. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2011 & Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2002

2. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2008

3. Issey Miyake Fall/Winter 2001

4. Junya Watanabe Fall/Winter 2003



Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. When the usage appeared in 1909 it denoted: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected and theatrical. By the middle of the 1970s the definition comprised: banality, artifice, mediocrity and ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal. I am pseudo-intellectual camp.

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Monolythic III

1. Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2011

2. Oskar Zieta Plopp stool



The anti-fur, pro-vegan mash-up of Jeff Koons and Isa Genzken. Polished silver plates, crunched. Presumably non-disposable, non-recyclable. Foreverwear. The perfect addition to any private collection.

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Paraphernalia

Product design Alessi

Once your Comme desire is satisfied, you realize there is also a sudden, unforeseen enthusiasm for 90s product design emerging. And you wonder if you should invest in, yes, Alessi kitchen equipment.
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