Paranormal Stroke Fight

Calvin Klein Spring/Summer 2008 vs. Trompe l'œil installation

Floating strokes creating 3D illusions of a high-gloss surface. A visual hybrid of stiff plastic and reflective metal. Floating strokes haphazardly taking over the space while the result feels impossible.
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Laminated Veneer Fight

Proenza Schouler Spring/Summer 2012 vs. 1935 Retro Kitchen

Like most of the times, Proenza Schouler looks like the pictogram of everyday reality. Brutal in its choice of pattern, postmodern in its distant reference to the aesthetic codes of mainstream. Put shortly: American Kitchen Camp.
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Pastel Strip Fight

Lanvin Fall/Winter 2003 vs. Imi Knoebel

Zippers, belts and safety straps. Sticks, gaps and overlaps. It is rather hypnotizing to see minimalism grow in complexity. And following the functional in becoming decorative. As if there wasn't a contradiction by definition.
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Table Cloth Fight

Tsumori Chisato Fall/Winter 2011 vs. Henri Matisse Spanish Still Life, 1911

Is that a Matisse on her skirt?
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Preserved Latex Fight

Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Keith Sonnier

Never getting tired of posting Raf Simons pieces. This time put together with a rather unwearable favourite: Keith Sonnier. Both depicting one common matter. Latex it is. The material I wanna feel on my skin.
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Thermo Conversion Fight

Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2011 vs. Global Warming

Yohji trusts in global warming. According to his latest offering, women will go out in sheer black negligé dresses in winter 2011. The hair probably already indicating the change of nature.
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Polythene Wrap Fight

Maison Martin Margiela Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Bruce LaBruce Hustler White

Many people ask me: Horst, what to wear on Valentine's Day? Well, there surely are plenty of possibilities. But my advice remains simple: Wrap yourself as a gift.
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White Lace Fight

Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Lace underwear

Take a Dolce & Gabbana collection, divide and transform its elements into men's underwear. Lace. Leopard. Crystals. Cutouts. Conservatism and liberality. It's wrong, it's beautiful.
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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

Wooden Veneer Fight

Rodarte Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Bavarian balcony

Absolutely loved this collection. Carvings on planks as dresses. One cannot deny a certain resemblance to the traditional Bavarian balcony. Or the typical yet brutal wall systems Germans are so fond of. But yes, bad childhood memories can be transformed into renewed contexts of beauty.
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Little Dress Fight

Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Alex Katz The Black Dress, 1960

Two artists in their own right. Two interpretations of one timeless classic. The uniform of the intellectual elite. The little black dress. Now available for both sexes. I'm a woman.
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Trending Topics Fight

Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Camel

I am in love with every single piece from that collection. And I realized: I need this double-breasted jacket. In the colour camel. I know it's hip and trendy but I have to surrender to it. It's hip and trendy in a good way.
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Image credits Catwalking, Google

Shopping Bag Fight

Moschino Cheap & Chic Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Tim Eitel 'Asphalt'

Mass consumption, kitsch and Neue Leipziger Schule. Unreflected gossip girl mentality versus social criticism? Status symbols versus irony? Besides all speculations and interpretations: What counts in the end is that you can wear your shopping bag as a hat this fall!
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Neon Letters Fight

Adeline André Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Light writing

The woman who invented the world famous 'three sleeve hole' must be admired for her outré design approach. Continuously challenging and re-forming the term 'wearability'. And again, I am taken by her lightness/light-heartedness.
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Sweet Gradient Fight

Gaspard Yurkievich Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Langnese Dolomiti

The shoes, the sleeves, the almost forgotten ice cream. While I would not recommend to lick the Yurkievich coat, we all remember summer and Dolomiti ice cream. A truly melancholic memory.
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Image credits Catwalking, Till Fischer

Pink Candy Fight

Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2010 vs. Cotton candy

I just love cotton candy. In any context. And now I'm hungry.
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Nude Feminity Fight

Lilly Heine Graduate collection vs. Tit scarf

By building up multiple layers of lasercut wool crepe, Lilly Heine creates three-dimensional shapes of severe precision. Literally adding a new dimension to textile technology. I can hear Prada knocking on her door.
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War Paint Fight

Acne Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Iroquois

Ethnic futursim and Klingon references. I would have recommended to add some lip implant metal accessories by Husam El Odeh to complete the styling. Otherwise, the Acne space odyssey is quite something.
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Image credits Dazed Digital

Silver Geegaw Fight

Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2009 vs. £1 decoration

This coat is multifunctional. It may replace the christmas tree. And it also perfectly serves as new year's decoration.
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White Feathers Fight

Todd Lynn Spring/Summer 2010 vs. Baby swan

Innocent and vulnerable while mean and aggressive. As fascinating as threatenting. Nature hides the most evil behind soft façades.
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