The Craft VI

1. Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2012
2. Junya Watanabe Spring/Summer 2003
3. Comme des Garçons Shirt Fall/Winter 2012
4. Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2007
5. Junya Watanabe Spring/Summer 2002

Death threat letters from Rei and Junya. While Rei combines letters, numbers and conspirative signs and places them onto canvases of androygnous cuts, she manufactures the visual element of shock that has always succeeded so well. In the meanwhile, Junya prepares scissor and newspapers.
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Walking Duvets II

Photos Junya Watanabe, Viktor & Rolf, Suzuki Takayuki & various unknown sources

It has been prognosed almost exactly two years ago. We desire their existence. Transforming our favourite nighttime place into our favourite daytime garment. They will return.
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Post Paris III

A false encyclopaedic guide to the prêt-à-porter collections for Spring/Summer 2012.
Third chapter: Junya Watanabe

1. Junya Watanabe Spring/Summer 2012
2. Guido Mocafico
3. Frida Kahlo

Junya Watanabe showed the living dead. Reflected via opulent vanitas still life headpieces. Subsequently unifying himself with one formerly living artist obsessed with dysfunction, pain and death.
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Welcome To The Camp

1. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2011 & Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 2002

2. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2008

3. Issey Miyake Fall/Winter 2001

4. Junya Watanabe Fall/Winter 2003



Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. When the usage appeared in 1909 it denoted: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected and theatrical. By the middle of the 1970s the definition comprised: banality, artifice, mediocrity and ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal. I am pseudo-intellectual camp.

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Source Wikipedia

Walking Duvets

Gareth Pugh Fall/Winter 2009


Veronique Branquinho & Iceberg Fall/Winter 2009


Junya Watanabe & Vivienne Westwood Fall/Winter 2009

It's so easy for the women in 2009 and 2010 to dress fabuleux in winter: Just stay in bed, or well, take your bed with you! That's the symbiosis of prèt-á-porter and laissez-faire. Cozy. Let's snuggle and cuddle!
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Image credits Catwalking & WWD