Dialogue

1. Wolfgang Tillmans Four Boots, 1992
2. Begüm Sekendiz Boré & Raf Simons at Intermission1, Berlin 2011

Face to face confrontations and the exchange of words. The fear of refusion and the warmth of sympathy. A digital projection of reality becomes reality itself. Attractions are strengthened, illusions disappear.
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Nudist Camp IV

1. Paul X Johnson
2. Paul Delvaux
3. Man Ray

When reality doesn't offer what voices have been promosing, it is time to escape to the Nudist Camp. A place where former legends strip bare and hide in dark birch forrests. And they never return.
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Rue Etienne Marcel

Waistcoat Raf Simons Archives
Top Raf Simons
Trousers H&M
Shoes Raf Simons x Doc Martens
Sunglasses Persol
Folder Daisuku Iwanaga

Parisian detail memories. In devotion to a three-lettered name.
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Image credits Urban Parade

Fundamental Decisions

1. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2009
2. Givenchy Spring/Summer 2011
3. Ann Demeulemeester Spring/Summer 2010

What to wear? What to pack? Your opinion and comment is highly appreciated. Sleeveless and shorts. Leather and leopard. Sequins and muscles. One, two or three? Paris, Paris, Paris.
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Permanent Crime

Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2010 (ruined by a permanent marker)

I love my vintage-new Dries shirt. Olive green with thin black outlines, seemingly hand-drawn onto the seam's edges. Painfully, someone took this aesthetic approach literally today. And accidentally ruined it with a permanent marker.
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Vertical Altar

Green marble, golden letters. Exterior. Brutalist tables, industrial surfaces. Interior. Aesthetically, Houben can be considered the most beautiful shopping space in Antwerp. Probably best described as sci-fi baroque.
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Still Life, Still

1. Marble and glass vases, white Maison Martin Margiela box
2. Porcelain deer, Fantastic Man perfume and fleur de sel
3. Fluorescent sunglasses, Prada case, white paper coffee cup

The reduction of myself as an object.
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Hardcore Studio

Leather T-shirt Josef Lazo
Shirt Maison Martin Margiela
Shoes Raf Simons x Doc Martens

Giving myself over to the principles of obsession. I am not innocent. I am not living the lie. I do what I preach. I am what I write. I can't be tamed. My homage to Margiela and Mapplethorpe.
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Ruhe

Artworks Hiroshi Sugimoto, Peter Churcher

Giving myself a break.
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Le 23 Dimanche

Collections Wooyoungmi, Ryunshu, Qasimi

Paris is going all leather, And tribal. De mon plaisir! Do I have to feel wrong and guilty if I like that? Will I go to goa techno parties all summer? Probably not. But I will dream of it. Peut-être.
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Le 22 Samedi

Collections Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, Mihara Yasuhiro, Tillmann Lauterbach, Damir Doma, Raf Simons

9 shows, 1 presentation and Marc Jacobs gloves for 3 Euros. Mon jour en chiffres. The image quality is bad as always and photoshopped to death - but the colouration sums up this season's feeling of Paris quite well. Note: fluorescent belts and black plastic trousers at Raf Simons.
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Le 21 Vendredi

Collections Julius, Walter van Beirendonck, Kris van Assche, Cerruti, Henrik Vibskov, John Galliano

Paris blackberry diary day two. Highlights include Tony Ward at the best show so far: Kris van Assche. And Russian ballet at John Galliano, reading Sophokles while waiting for the gender snow storm to start.
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