Post Paris XI

A false encyclopaedic guide to the prêt-à-porter collections for Spring/Summer 2012.
Eleventh chapter: Comme des Garçons

1. Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2012
2. René Magritte
3. Irving Penn

The principle of 'bride' taken to the last extreme extent. The bridal veil becomes the dress. Becomes everything. Some may call it totalist fashion. I'd like to call it commitment.
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Deconstruction

Peter Fischli and David Weiss vs. Alexander McQueen

The white platform. Plain canvas for performance and installation. The static origin of exposure. Staging the mere object as fetish or transforming the living object as sculpture. Alexander McQueen in The Bridgegroom Stripped Bare by Nick Knight.
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