Desired #1

Asymmetric Sweater Lanvin

Time for the annual and holy Horst Christmas wishlist. It is not only meant as a vague indication for anyone feeling close or wanting to feel close, it is also a blunt commandment. Please me.
/HORST

Mean While

Ports 1961 Fall/Winter 2011

While compiling the perfect steel kitchen and being restricted to a range of plastic fantastic design elements, I invite you to have a detailed view on the collection shown above. Depicting the very best use and placement of metal.
/HORST

Monolythic III

1. Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2011

2. Oskar Zieta Plopp stool



The anti-fur, pro-vegan mash-up of Jeff Koons and Isa Genzken. Polished silver plates, crunched. Presumably non-disposable, non-recyclable. Foreverwear. The perfect addition to any private collection.

/HORST

Iconographic Omen

1. Riccardo Tisci by Steven Klein
2. Givenchy Fall/Winter 2011
3. Givenchy Fall/Winter 2002

Why the rottweiler? Riccardo Tisci explains: 'In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler — that I am very dark and everything — I have a side that is very romantic that I show to very few people.' Interestingly enough, the quadruped already appeared before Tisci took on his legacy.
/HORST

Quote via Interview Magazine

Miusing Escher III

1. Miu Miu Fall/Winter 2011
2. M. C. Escher Rippled Surface, 1950

The similarities might appear very abstract. But once watching the campaign movie Muta, the implication of rippled water becomes self-evident. Eventually, we see the exact same image. Twice.
/HORST

Detect

Lanvin Fall/Winter 2011

While compiling my fall wishlist and fictive wardrobe, I realized the Ossendrijver outdoor attire feels quite right. Ideally, I'll just layer up my summer coat with a nylon bomber.
/HORST

Polyvinyl Chloride

1. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2011
2. James Long Fall/Winter 2011

As our short history of the plastic raincoat in popular culture evolves into a comprehensive saga, its index demands another chapter. Working title: Polyvinyl and polymer in contemporary fashion.
/HORST

Undoubtedly

Maison Martin Margiela Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2011

Earlier today, the infamous Maison fulfilled a Horst prophecy and presented transparent suits and plastic raincoats. Besides, the post-baroque Hotel Maison Champs Elysées delivered the backdrop for brutalist motorcycle jackets and tape-draped evening dresses.
/HORST

Monolythic II

1. Stella McCartney Fall/Winter 2011
2. Anne de Vries Cave 2 Cave

And what is the result of all the research? The desire to wear a pair of silver painted trousers. A fluorescent metallic T-shirt. Or an early 90s, shiny polyester shirt by Dolce & Gabbana.
/HORST

Deconstructed Triptych

1. Kasimir Malevich Selected artworks
2. Jenny Postle Graduate Collection
3. Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2011

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Taking the principle of collage and multiplying it in itarative rows of three. Irregular rows of cloth and colour. Layered geometric shapes. Three lines of text.
/HORST

Anacrusis

1. Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2011
2. Tom Ford Unknown collection

Same same but different. As the men's robe seems to be a Tom Ford signature, I've decided to investigate further on this (mostly bare chested) subject. Results will supposedly be shared here.
/HORST

Irrational Poets

1. Damir Doma Fall/Winter 2011
2. Allen Ginsberg, still taken from the movie picture Howl

Formal and conservative on the top, derangedly casual at the bottom. Shirt, tie and cotton shorts. I've verified this composition as the perfect look for the next couple of pre-summer days. Underwear as outerwear.
/HORST

Brainchild

Nina Donis Fall/Winter 2011

Remotely to be described as post-minimalist, in remembrance of a genius known as Helmut Lang. Containing all we'd have expected from the master himself. Maybe just subconsciously but nonetheless perfect.
/HORST

Rippchen & Kraut II

Marios Schwab Fall/Winter 2011

A man in lederhosen is ideally accompanied by a woman in Marios Schwab. His Austrain heart establishing the post-modernist dirndl. The geared-up maid satisfying our SM fantasies.
/HORST

See also Part I.