Straps & Strings II

1. 'Heat Wave' by Gregory Harris for Intermission Spring/Summer 2011
2. Unknown

Assuming that the best part about dressing is leaving parts undressed, or implying the idea of already being undressing again, the strapped-on garment inherits complex values of attraction.
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Removal

Top Helmut Lang

White letters on white ground. White cotton on white skin. Helmut Lang Underwear. Luckily it did not become one of the shredded fragments for his latest Make It Hard installation. I'll make it my everyday uniform.
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Body Modification

1. Hedi Slimane Diary
2. Unknown
3. Death Becomes Her

By the way: What happened to implants? A topic that dominated my late teenage talkshow afternoons. The mainstream has mutated its principle into contraception. But what is its current status in subculture?
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Pleats Please

1. Comme des Garçons
2. Unknown

Contemplating a meanwhile well-established topic. The Men's Dress. And, more precisely, the pleated skirt. Preferably worn on one side. And, more loosely, quoted with a T-shirt tied around one's waist.
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Somehow Ethereal

Collage Dries van Noten Spring/Summer 2011

The reason why I feel attracted to acid denim might probably be its sinister resemblance to a profane thing such as clouds. Carrying a moment of childish astonishment. And at the same time referring to a political ethos.
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Forbidden Love III

Isn't it nice to have obsessions? Some unfulfilled fantasies. Things that shouldn't be but manifest themselves irreparably. Just like a tribal tattoo on tanned skin.
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Tender Truth

Dries van Noten Spring/Summer 2011

As the romantic dandy merges with the vicious rebel, the Dries van Noten man claims his warm, soft spot in my bedroom. He is arrogant and egocentric. Sometimes he annoys me. But I can look behind this façade and see the broken and loving.
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Image credits Catwalking