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Berlin Tegel, airport shuttle to The Avant/Garde Diaries

Let's see what will happen tonight. I will dress up in my Raf collection, head to heel. I will slowly sip a G&T and look in his direction all night. Then, finally, I will approach and kiss him. On his cheeks and on his lips.
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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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Fernsehturm am Rhein.

Fernsehturm am Rhein.

Gehry Bauten im Medienhafen.

Shyam

Snakeskin belt Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2011

Better late than never. I really don't know where it suddenly came from. But the Comme poison has pervaded my veins. The result is unresistance. And the hindsight that sometimes it's love at second sight.
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Male Ideal

Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2001 & 2002

Erase and rewind. 10 years back to the slender and skinny. A radical image of masculinity, slowly being forgotten and replaced by the hunk. Let's be this again. Wearing sleeveless shirts, dipped in metaphoric glitter.
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Image credits Hedi Slimane

Vulgar Thoughts

Photos Nobuyoshi Araki

When I attend a guided tour in a museum, I feel quite embarrassed, almost amused. And entertained by the whispered theories of its visitors. Ashamed faces when confronted with erotic art are probably the most enjoyable.
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Helmut Was Here

Strait jackets and tongue piercings. Lace front pants and leather gloves. The inventory of a decade that lasts longer than just ten years. Once again recalling the legacy of a master who has found his retreat on a chicken farm.
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Body Snatchers

Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2004

If you feel slightly obsessed with a designer, just give in to it. In the end, we only live once. It might be hedonism, it might be egoism and it also might be shopping victim-ism. But things that feel good, feel best.
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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.
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Avidity

Top Givenchy Spring/Summer 2011
Bottom Lanvin Spring/Summer 2011

A white, partly sheer leopard print shirt. Givenchy. A black multi-pocket, zip-strap utility bag. Lanvin. Currently on my wishlist. I like the temporary illusion of ownership.
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Ink Survey

Photos Unknown, Hedi Slimane, Ignazio Lozano

As long as I don't hear any protest, the promotion of war painted bodies will proceed. I am curious: Who really is tattooed? Whose skin is showing indigenous artworks? Whose back is decorated by a slag tag?
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And Then

The Prodigy - Firestarter 1996

Back to the original. The self-repetitive hardcore of techno grunge. A video that concurrently conveyed subculture into pop culture. Bringing back the faded memory of a pierced and hedonistic MTV generation. Formerly including myself.
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Cyberdog

Photos Jean Baptiste Mondino
Styling Judy Blame
Magazine The Face, August 1993

One might have already noticed a certain fascination for tribal tattoos. But a Horst knows no mercy. And he wants it all. He wants it back. Here and now. What am I talking about? Piercings and techno grunge fetish wear.
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The Return

1. Sean & Seng, Damir Doma
2. Robert Mapplethorpe, Petar Petrov
3. Robert Mapplethorpe, Ann Demeulemeester

As previously indicated Paris promoted a beautiful dark twisted fantasy of male sexuality. Paris gave men leather pants. It's a question of belief. And baby, I believe that you were ment for me. And if there's somebody, then baby I believe.
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Hero Worship

Part 15: Rudolf Nureyev




Photos Unknown, Richard Avedon

Supposedly the best male ballet dancer of the 20th century, his bare athletic perfection has been impressively documented by the aesthete Avedon. A manifest memento of what we aspire.
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Medusa: Second Prequel

1. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2010 by Satoshi Saikusa
2. Li, H.R. Giger 1974

Facing the condemned and seemingly unaesthetic. The ugly and hated. To finally establish a version of beauty and fascination that is constituted of one's very own fears and preconceptions.
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Black Eruption

Kris van Assche Spring/Summer 2011

Talking about dirty hands and intellectual workwear, this collection offers the visual crossover of a motor mechanic's oily biceps and a volcano's ashes spread over white linen sheets.
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