Boobarella

1. Hussein Chalayan Fall/Winter 2009
2. Hans Arp sculpture

From lederhosen to dirndl. From leather pants to leather shell bras. i guess I'll just have to accept the fact that I like leather in any context. Luckily I can compensate this with my appetite for art.
/HORST

Wet Dreams

Ann-Sofie Back Atelje Spring/Summer 2011

Praise this woman. There is a masochistic sensuality to the pieces. Pierced throats. Wet look dresses. Trompe l'œil fantasies in 3D. If I had to name a head designer for my surreal womanswear line, it'll be her.
/HORST

Recall

Top Christina Aguilera
Bottom Girls Aloud

As I've still not seen any result of perpetuating the topic I'll explain it one more time: This is Barbie Fashion. And it got lost. Sometimes it still appears in Cheryl Cole videos. But we need it in an everyday context.
/HORST

B-Sexual

Top Britney Spears by Todd Cole
Bottom Brigitte Bardot

Britney is the epitome of pop. A symbol for the hyperglycaemia of our society. A bitter sweet candy stick. A post-romantic icon of consumerism and self-dramatization. Wrapped-up in white tulle. Remixing an image of the original power of Dirndl-escapism: The über-icon and strawberry blonde Brigitte Bardot.
/HORST

Lesbians On Mars

Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2011

Aggressive skin girls without shaved heads or pitbull dogs. Promoting a hard-bitten version of feminity. Sheer blouses with collar pieces, chunky leather shoes and soft biker jackets. Fulfilling a phrase I always wanted to use.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking

Whitewashed

Dries van Noten Spring/Summer 2011

Unfortunately too save. Too harmonious. Too tone in tone. Where did the risk-taking go, where the deeply admired Dries clash? Did he surrender himself to pastels? But maybe this has been his manoeuvre. Killing us softly.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking

Exhibited

Artworks Jaclyn Santos

I am in love with a new reality TV show: Work Of Art. Project Runway for artists - with better clothes in it. My favourite: Self-voyeuristic Jaclyn Santos, using the Barbie cliché as a core momentum of her work.
/HORST

Big Bang Theory

Helmut Lang Spring/Summer 1991

You might have recognized that I recently developed a new addiction: Barbie & Ken Fashion. And now I actually found out who truly invented it: Helmut Lang. Unexpectedly, he beautified short skirts, plastic frills and sheer pastel dresses when I was still an innocent boy playing with Barbie and Ken.
/HORST

Group Of Four

Tamara De Lempicka vs. Robert Palmer

Women with sleek hair, smokey eyes and red lipstick - a repetitive leitmotif of timeless beauty. Women who use the definitions of sex as their weapon and source of strength.
/HORST

Tachycardia

Yves Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2011

I got shivers and a warm feeling inside my stomach when this collection ascended in my consciousness. It left me satisfied. The proportions, the architectual, the feminity. Stefano Pilati reigns on the highest ranks.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking

Lipstick

Isn't this image pairing symptomatic for Lynn & Horst? Traces of lipstick on a boy's shoulder. And a voluptuous lips sofa. I always loved this one. Soft kisses on your behind.
/HORST

Kindness

Disa Treutiger Designer's Nest 2010

It is impressive to watch a young talent evolving a signature design language. Disa Treutiger's pieces instantly stood out and caught my attention due to a subconscious feeling of familiarity. Soft mutations of structure and plasticity that enwind the female body.
/HORST

Image credits Copenhagen Fashion Week