Dalí's Dolls

1. Surrealist Exhibition, Paris 1938
2. Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2009
2. Vogue Cover, April 1944
3. Portrait by George Platt Lynes

Handsome young Dalí and his mannequin. Foam wigs and breast cutouts. The former Rei Kawakubo? Vogue cover and lobster bikini. How would his hypothetical Spring/Summer 2013 collection look like?
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A Short History Of Dilettantism In Popular Culture

1. Jonathan Meese All works, 1998-2011
2. Kelly Rowland Solo career, 2002-2011
3. The Real Housewives of New York City All episodes, 2008-2011
4. German Vogue All issues, 2003-2011
5. Michael Kors All collections, 1981-2011

Banality, dysfunction, rubbish. Low quality productions, loaded with calculated pretentiousness. The manqué product, as part of a continuous cycle called 'culture', will quickly be replaced and forgotten. A quick last view at the flux of failure.
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Mixed Media

Top Steven Meisel, Vogue Italia (2007)
Bottom Benbo George, Particles (2008)

Surrealistic objects and appearances. The furry something and the gorilla costume. The round something and the roses-and-pearls embellished designer blouse. Let's have breakfast.
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Offence As Defence

Photos Steven Meisel

The final post to conclude my military trilogy: Make Love Not War. And what else do we need: camouflage, half-nakedness, tribal tattoos. I'll try to abandon my obsession pretty soon, promised.
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Metropolis 2010

Photos Karl Lagerfeld

I more and more fall for the photographic genius of Karl Lagerfeld. Especially in regard of his continuation and adaption of utopian fantasies known from modern ancestors such as Fritz Lang and Thierry Mugler. Pursuing the concept of the robot woman.
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Killer Heels

Photos Unknown, Indlekofer & Knoepfel

Two daring options. Available at your favourite fetish shop or, respectively, medical supply center. Who would have thought leg splints translate so beautifully.
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Exposure

Photos Alasdair McLellan
Model Dree Hemmingway
Magazine Vogue Russia

Triangle bra cutouts revealing porcelain skin. Feminity dramatically exposed. Strengthened by dark lipstick and opulent jewellery. The Petrarchan ideal.
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Powdered Noses

Photos Guy Bourdin

Extreme angles and surreal close-ups. Sharp light and high-heels. Naked bodies and absurd scenarios. Pubic hair and sausages. Ladies and gentlemen: Guy Bourdin.
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Second Skin

Photo Peter Linbergh
Magazine American Vogue April 1990

Snakeskin is the new leopard! Well, at least for today.
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A Discourse: The 90s Woman Pt.IV

Advertisment Valentino 1995
Photographer Herb Ritts
Magazine American Elle, Italian Vogue

The 90s woman enjoys life. May it be an expensive designer dress or a nice little three-way. Yes it's decadent. But why should she neglect an opportunity?
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A Discourse: The 90s Woman Pt.II

Top British Vogue, October 1991 by Ellen von Unwerth
Bottom Harper's Bazaar, June 1999 by Nathaniel Goldberg

Taking away what is not needed. Keeping it simple and strong. This is minimalism. This is the 90s. And if that means cutting a hole in a dress and showing your breast, this is absolutely acceptable, right? Yes, it is!
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80s Power Dressing

Photographer Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot
Model Malgosia Bela
Styling Carine Roitfeld
Magazine Vogue Paris October 2008

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Rip It Off

Photographer Mario Sorrenti
Model Natasha Poly
Magazine Vogue

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High Gloss

Alex Salinas creates beautiful photography for prestigious clients such as
Arena Homme+, Haider Ackermann, Bernhard Willhelm, Vogue or Liebling.
Catch us if you can!

/LYNN & HORST (directly from N.Y.)