Gänseblümchen

Top Alexis Mabille Spring/Summer 2011
Bottom John Singer Sargent

Men wearing laurels. Or daisies. The antique reference recalls the decadence of Caligula. But I mostly adore the vulnerability and softness evoked by endorsing a man with a floral wreath.
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Image credits Catwalking, George Chamoun

Velum Vellum

Artworks Paul Cadmus

I always felt attracted to magic realism. How the clothes cover the bodies like a second skin. Only appearing as an alibi for nudity and eroticism. But also adding an ease, lightness and vulnerability.
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Idealism

Photos Alasdair McLellan
Magazine 032c

A contemporary classic, strong in its simplicity. A substantial and vital contribution to the photographic discourse of male identity and stereotypes. Adding vulnerability and intellectualism to the archetype image also contrived and aestheticised by artists as Bruce Weber and Luke Smalley.
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A Discourse: The 90s Woman Pt.VI

Photos Steven Meisel

The 90s woman is dubious. Switching the gender mode spontaneously. Changing strength and masculinity into vulnerable and purest feminity. Lost in emotion and reverie. Abandoning severity and devoting herself to the glitz in life.
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Previous parts A Discourse: The 90s Woman

Illicit Desire

Paintings Paul P.

I can't wait to finally receive my order, the book Nonchaloir. Collier Schorr writes about Paul P.: “Each boy is a thousand worlds of desire and repression hidden in plain sight." Paul's boys are elusive delegates for a fragile, complex genealogy of aesthetic mores.
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Manipulated Forces

Lenny Pier Ramos Antwerp Royal Academy Year 1

A dress astonishingly resembling the birth of a goddess. Ascending from white structure and virgin space. Vulnerable and fragile. Just existing for one second. And then disappearing.
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2 Pictures

Photos Ryan McGinley
Magazine Vice Photo Book

This vulnerable boys theme scares me. It is always so touching. I can't help but falling in love again and again. I feel so weak.
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