Modus Operandi

1. Giorgio Morandi
2. Atelier Giorgio Morandi, Bologna, 1989–90
3. Giorgio Morandi, Natura Morta, 1952

Same same but different. Please compare the work shown above with this recent photo booth experiment. Things of similarity. Maybe I do live in a parallel place of mind?
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Naturgewalten

1. Keith Sonnier
2. Yves Tanguy

Before we get physical again. Figurative abstraction. Something that looks like a beach. Or a writing in the sky. Two bodies (of work) completing each other. What would be the correspondent runway look?
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Table Cloth Fight

Tsumori Chisato Fall/Winter 2011 vs. Henri Matisse Spanish Still Life, 1911

Is that a Matisse on her skirt?
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Awareness Campaign

Top Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2011
Bottom Unknown editorial, Smoking spoils your looks

As a non-smoker myself, I can speak with pure conscience and vehemently support a crispy clean 'all white, no nicotine' policy. So does Alexander Wang who banned and quoted the cigarette as hair clip.
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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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Citrus Sinensis II

1. Orangina posters by Bernard Villemot, 1972-1986
2. Prada Spring/Summer 2011 campaign

Last night's orange-themed research delivered a striking visual resemblance of Tropician heat. Or shall I say: a blood orange relationship. And blood orange juice is thicker than water. As is commonly known.
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Fox Tales

Jeremy Scott Fall/Winter 2011 vs. Prada Spring/Summer 2011

When the idea of pop is completely understood. When references are sucked in, chewed up and spit out again. When copying is allowed. Then, we don't have another scandal, we just witness a postmodern quote.
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Nudist Camp

1. Wrestling, Michael Sweerts 1649
2. The Fountain of Youth, Lucas Cranach 1546
3. The Dance, Henri Matisse 1910

Where do you wanna be now?
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The Sense Of Presence

Tim Hamilton Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Michaël Borremans

Surreal portraits of women. Dissolving into the circumfluent space. Only hold in reality by form and texture that remains touchable but not always visible. Their humanity sustained by hues of earth, skin and dust.
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