Serialization

1. Maison Martin Margiela Tokyo Store
2. Brian Jungen Cetology, 2002

A rail of luxury items in a sterilized surrounding. Artefacts of mass market production reworked into prehistoricalist sculptures. Hold together by the linear order of our culture's white spine.
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Düsseldorf - Nowhereland by linus_lohoff on Flickr.

Düsseldorf - Nowhereland by linus_lohoff on Flickr.

Phallic Masculinity

1. Gianni Versace 1993
2. Jeff Laudenslager

If you open your shirt, structures are unveiled. If you wear short shorts, three-dimensional altitudes appear. If you combine the round and soft with the square and hard, you are a black and white striped sculpture in a silk shirt.
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Eternal Rivalry

Céline Fall/Winter 2011 vs. Arjan Janssen

I'll have to admit: she did it again. Women become a piece of art. The kind of art that will remain for decades. Decent garments with relevance that won't seek visual competition with their wearer.
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Hunting High And Low

Artworks Christopher Russell

Standards are high. But it's lonely up there. It's a tough way. And when you look down upon the scenery you realize it's all tiny and doesn't really matter. How to loose one's demands? Tonight, I wanna be with the mountains.
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Wooden Veneer Fight

Rodarte Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Bavarian balcony

Absolutely loved this collection. Carvings on planks as dresses. One cannot deny a certain resemblance to the traditional Bavarian balcony. Or the typical yet brutal wall systems Germans are so fond of. But yes, bad childhood memories can be transformed into renewed contexts of beauty.
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Love-Hate Relationship

1. Robert Maxwell, Rolling Stone 1997
2. Patrick Demarchelier & Marc Jacobs campaign by Jürgen Teller
3. Patrick Demarchelier & Yves Sain Laurent Fall/Winter 2008

In my narrow-minded world, corduroy is directly followed by velvet. Questionable materials that I've never completely understood. They leave me with a feeling of disgust and insecurity. That's why I need a respective garment in my wardrobe. Immediately and badly.
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Corduroy

Top Giorgio Armani Fall/Winter 2002
Bottom James Long Fall/Winter 2010

I'm usually not afraid of questionable or utterly awful things. But corduroy leaves me concerned. Why? Why does it exist? Why do people use it? Why do some people even like it? Especially given the fact that it may have a fashion comeback.
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P.S.: Pictures shown above represent noteworthy exceptions. I just couldn't allow myself to post Ralph Lauren.

Autumn Leaves

Philip Lim Spring/Summer 2011

I am in love with these structured 3D trousers. The current weather conditions tend to evoke my longing for the crispy, pleated and crinkled. Structure for comfort so to say.
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Image credits Catwalking

Denomination

Gabriel Stunz Spring/Summer 2011

Although the collection's title 'Gakona' refers to a small village in the mountains of Alaska, its sound and final outcome does evoke a notion of Japanese tradition. Paired with German severity and craftsmanship, it results in the emphasis of two elements, two sides, the elusiveness of belt and scarf.
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Pulsation

Ioannis Dimitrousis Fall/Winter 2010

Concentrating on the simplicity of crochet and its inherent structure, Ioannis Dimitrousis retrieves his strenght this season. Most successfully when giving the garment a basic shape and allowing the vivid 3D surface to speak for itself.
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Image credits Dimitris Theocharis

Contrarious Conditions

JULIAANDBEN Spring/Summer 2011

Picturing an extraterrestrial travel. Facing landscapes absorbed by human action and manipulated into contradictory extremes. The desert and the ice. The inhuman confronted with garments of purity, instinctiveness and craftsmanship.
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