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.
/HORST

Image credits Hedi Slimane

Death

1. Vanitas still life & Givenchy Spring/Summer 2011
2. Hedi Slimane still life & Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2011

I've never understood the fascination for it. I am afraid of death. Who can take this fear away? Or is this even possible? Men in leopard skirt shorts might be a consolatory beginning.
/HORST

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?
/HORST

Presentiment

Yves Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 1999

When concepts of identity merge. Hedi Slimane for Yves Saint Laurent. How vividly these looks predetermined the later Dior Homme future. How interesting to see an aesthetic evolve that is bound to a name, to a luxury label. When will he return?
/HORST