Post Paris III

A false encyclopaedic guide to the prêt-à-porter collections for Spring/Summer 2012.
Third chapter: Junya Watanabe

1. Junya Watanabe Spring/Summer 2012
2. Guido Mocafico
3. Frida Kahlo

Junya Watanabe showed the living dead. Reflected via opulent vanitas still life headpieces. Subsequently unifying himself with one formerly living artist obsessed with dysfunction, pain and death.
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Death

1. Vanitas still life & Givenchy Spring/Summer 2011
2. Hedi Slimane still life & Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2011

I've never understood the fascination for it. I am afraid of death. Who can take this fear away? Or is this even possible? Men in leopard skirt shorts might be a consolatory beginning.
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Stages Of Development

Hussein Chalayan Fall/Winter 2008

An intricately draped jumpsuit dissolving into a voluminous dress until it becomes a super flat, almost square shape. Working as the plain canvas for an antique vanitas motif.
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Image credits Catwalking

Flowers And More

Artist Nobuyoshi Araki

This time I skip the nudity part (what a Horst surprise) and focus on the withered and broken. The vulnerable and injured. The beauty of fugaciousness. Araki captures a poetic and intense feeling, still with a sexual connotation, but evolving into more subtle ways of expression.
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Secret Garden Party, Gelnhausen, Germany

Dead fish is one of the most traditional Vanitas motives.
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