Plastic Surgery

Dior Homme Spring/Summer 2011

The male body as an object of proportion. Divided. Extremeties opposed in relation. The arm, the musculus biceps brachii as the centre of asymmetric divergence. Fabrics and mind are taken away, then replaced again.
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Wiener Werkstätte

Top Flower table, Josef Hoffmann (1905)
Bottom Cutlery set, Josef Hoffmann (1903-1904)

Hundred years have passend. We've been so close to perfection. Cultural heights. Forgotten. Artistic and sexual freedom, tolerance, brutality in thoughts, radical sensuality.
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Suggestion #9

Noguchi table, 1944

Life wouldn't be complete without a Japanese classic. Black triangular shapes creating the optical illusion of lightness and floatation. And always remember: the joy of giving is priceless.
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Suggestion #7

Bauhaus architecture model

Living in a strictly square, cold and clinical concrete box is my idea of perfect architecture. Concrete walls, concrete floors. White furniture, steel kitchen. Emptiness and some flea market findings.
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Confessions Of An Exhibitionist

Artworks Ellsworth Kelly

Fresh flowers, a glass of red wine. Intellectual thoughts lead to exceptional characters. Reminding myself of which paths my mind seeks to explore. I want nothing. Just nakedness.
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Non-Sterile

Artworks Keith Sonnier

The smell of medical latex gloves. Manipulated cloth and paper pieces. Dyed, dipped, painted fabrics. Neglectfully mounted onto walls. Evoking the sensuality and poetry of fortuitousness.
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Octagon Hexagon

Pendant Kris van Assche

Embossed letters. Symmetry. Material. Hardware and sensuality. If I wore accessories I would be tempted to acquire this piece. If I owned an empty gallery space I would be willing to place this object.
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Intelligence Test

Photos Unknown

Three questions: How many triangles do you see? Which image attracts you more? To which degree can you spread your legs? Please share your assumptions with us and we will evaluate your IQ.
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Linear Poetry

Top Sloane, Peter Stichbury, 2000
Bottom Maison à Bordeaux, OMA, 2002

An image I'd like to hang in a house I'd like to own. Neo-realism and puristic construction. Blue, black and red. The face rebuilt in architecture. The suit a hill, the white shirt's collar a declining brick wall.
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Bauhaus

Top Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2010
Bottom Rietveld Schröder house

When clothing becomes architecture. And vice versa. In this case, fashion can thoroughly be entitled pure façade. Without regret or any pejorative undertone.
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Image credits Style.com, designboom

Normative Reference

A mirrored scenario. With slight aberrations: Semicircular arches are replaced by strictly square glass doors. The fragment of a face substituted by an entrance construction. The mood and colours remain identical.
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Holistic Triptych II

Top Pierre Cardin, Suit 1979
Center Theo van Doesburg, Arithmetic Composition 1930
Bottom Vico Magistretti, Kuta Table 1978

A suit, a painting, a lamp. The triangle, the circle, the square. A man could reduce his belongings in life to these three things. And their endless variation/combination/repetition.
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Holistic Triptych

Top Guy Bourdin
Center Massimo & Lella Vignelli
Bottom Thomas Kiesewetter

Guy, Massimo and Thomas unconsciously connected via form and colour. Transmedial concepts that carry a similar notion and degree of expression. Reducing the principles of life to triangle, circle and square.
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Replica

Horst Meier vs. Wassily Kandinsky



T-Shirt Levi's Red
Shorts Acne Jeans
Reversed bomber jacket Second Hand
Knife IKEA
Stool Vitra

May I introduce to you a new Lynn & Horst series. Dispiteously facing world renowned examples of art history. The aesthetic discourse documented and re-interpreted with photo booth. This time: The highly discussed Wassily Kandinsky, equally associated with appreciation and disgust.
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P.S.: If you would like Horst to challenge an artwork, submit your proposal here and now.

Nude Feminity Fight

Lilly Heine Graduate collection vs. Tit scarf

By building up multiple layers of lasercut wool crepe, Lilly Heine creates three-dimensional shapes of severe precision. Literally adding a new dimension to textile technology. I can hear Prada knocking on her door.
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Tables

Top Alain Gilles, Big Table for Bonaldo
Bottom Diego Rivera, Table on a Cafe Terrace, 1915

I just love the fact that every element, every shape and every shade is aesthetically connected. The world consists of countless variations of beauty that can be divided into a few basic principles. It only needs something as profane as a table to decode reality.
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Triangular Razor

Photos FFFFOUND!, Lewis Jones

The human body is architecture. Skin is a beautiful surface. Personality a façade.
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Anaphylaxis

Jil Sander Fall/Winter 2010

Promises. Closer. Slits. Legs. Sound. Space. Twitch. Jumpsuits. Robots. Cybersuits. Sometimes there is no rational explanation, just feelings. And conviction. The strong belief that this is just right.
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Image credits Catwalking

V Persuasion

Sweater Helmut Lang
Cycling shorts American Apparel
Athletic supporter Bike

Horst loves you. A valentine homage to Helmut Lang and my beloved readers. Hopefully leaving you with imagination, tension and graphic imagery.
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Profanity

Alexander Wang Fall/Winter 2010

Just 5 minutes later. Life stream screen shots and my BBM commentary: Velvet. Bra cutouts. Black. Backpacks. Quite Prada-ish. Sunglasses worn over hair on sides. Styling is excellent. Seriously. Silver pearls in narrow geometric lines. Really good I have to admit.
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