Sherman Questions VI

1. Cindy Sherman Untitled #157, 1986
2. Madeleine Vionnet 1930s

Sherman's images of ugliness reach their climax with a 1986 character transformation. The woman is transformed into an antropomorphed hybrid, recalling motives of ancient mythology. Of course, this jinxed figure is posing in an historical archive piece by Madelaine Vionnet, a woman known for dressing puppets.
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Image credits Cindy Sherman, Unknown

Miuccia's Utopia

Portrait Miuccia Prada

"I am attracted to what I hate and what I don't like. I like the battle. I like working on something I don't like. It pushes your creativity and new ideas.... To build on something bad and turn it into utopia." - Miuccia Prada, Arena Homme + 2006
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Welcome

An exclusive view into Horst's world. Today: my Berlin apartment. Can you feel it's beauty and luxury? Interior dreams in purple. What you can't feel though is the amazing artificial smell of furniture and carpet that welcomes you like a chemistry lab. Wonderful.
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Pussy Trash

Like the swine flu it spreads everywhere. Not always in its prettiest form. Unfortunately. One more evidence for the fact that kitten love is one of the most difficult balance acts in fashion. The brave step forward.
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Window Shopping II

There's nothing more exquisit and elegant than German nail studio and hairdresser windows. Nothing more romantic and poetic. Nothing more reminescent of the Golden Age of display decoration.
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Bonjour Tristesse II

Wolfsburg, Germany

Maybe these images which I have to face every day (except for the weekends fortunately) can top Horst's prior tristesse post. This is reality. You can't escape, the pictures will be drilled into your head like a malignant cancer. To put it in a nutshell:

"This city is so incredibly ugly, desolate, grey and meaningless. Actually a new word should be invented for it." - Andreas Ernst

Definitely worth another tristesse post on our little beloved blog.
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