Post Paris XV

A false encyclopaedic guide to the menswear collections, presenting:
Issey Miyake Fall/Winter 2012

1. Heather and Ivan Morison Black Pig Lodge, 2011
2. Michael Jackson feat. Janet Jackson Scream, 1995
3. Jean Tinguely Relief Méta-Mécanique Sonore II, 1955

A collection that succeeds where others fail. The programmatic approach to texture manipulation results in a 3D pyramid layer created of multiple triangles that partly protrude with each movement and reflect not only light but aesthetic history.
/HORST

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.
/HORST

When Did We Forget About Black Minimalism

1. Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 2004
2. Ecole Floating Staircase

When I look up, facing my vis-à-vis, and the person is dressed in black my eyes can rest. I can fully focus and concentrate on the spoken word. Black minimalism gives us comfort, easiness and freedom. We should do it more often.
/HORST

Post Paris XII

A false encyclopaedic guide to the prêt-à-porter collections for Spring/Summer 2012.
Last chapter: Hussein Chalayan

1. Hussein Chalayan Spring/Summer 2012
2. Ann Demeulemeester Store Seoul
3. Cabinet 1700-1720

It almost felt like a 'best of' collection. The greatest hits of a designer who removed himself from the label he built. The garments reflected this last consequence and gave insight to the laws of fashion. The end.
/HORST

Post Paris IX

A false encyclopaedic guide to the prêt-à-porter collections for Spring/Summer 2012.
Ninth chapter: Stella McCartney

1. Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2012
2. Bug eye
3. Konrad Klapheck

All eyes on her. The managing director of a factory for vegan mass production. The only remaining, truly socialist/capitalist luxury company. Of course this only is an illusion. Op-art.
/HORST

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Interstellar clouds have been replaced by dystopian tube structures.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.

/HORST

Quantum Mirage

Glass house Philip Johnson, 1949



Black stone mosaic. Black leather psycho divan. May a new life begin. It's my imaginary therapist's consultation. I have achieved nothing yet.

/HORST

Would Could

1. Hyllie Water Tower, Sweden
2. 1931 Water Tower, Zecc Architects, The Netherlands

Unfortunate in finding a moderate living space. Repeatedly confronted with identically renovated, mass-market compliant apartments. While only yearning for a pure, strictly functional space.
/HORST

Vertical Altar

Green marble, golden letters. Exterior. Brutalist tables, industrial surfaces. Interior. Aesthetically, Houben can be considered the most beautiful shopping space in Antwerp. Probably best described as sci-fi baroque.
/HORST

Horst Decoration, Issue 2

1. Nesting Coffee Table Frederick Kiesler, Posters Bruce Weber
2. Table Josef Hoffmann, Clock Henry van de Velde, Satyr statue Desiderío da Firenze
3. Urinal Marcel Duchamp, Image Helmut Lang

Welcome to my brutalist home. Strictly dominated by clinical surfaces. Concrete, metal, steel and stone. A marbelous bathroom with ready-made urinal. A Bruce Weber poster wall and an erotic satyr statue adding warmth and depth.
/HORST

Le 23 Dimanche

Collections Wooyoungmi, Ryunshu, Qasimi

Paris is going all leather, And tribal. De mon plaisir! Do I have to feel wrong and guilty if I like that? Will I go to goa techno parties all summer? Probably not. But I will dream of it. Peut-être.
/HORST

The Fall

The Fall 2006

Morphine for the eyes. An unjustly underrated and unregarded piece. The world re-constituting itself. Constantly shifting. And merging its narrative levels. It's like a Jean-Paul Gaultier collection replayed as a movie.
/HORST