Stages Of Development

Hussein Chalayan Fall/Winter 2008

An intricately draped jumpsuit dissolving into a voluminous dress until it becomes a super flat, almost square shape. Working as the plain canvas for an antique vanitas motif.
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Flowers And More

Artist Nobuyoshi Araki

This time I skip the nudity part (what a Horst surprise) and focus on the withered and broken. The vulnerable and injured. The beauty of fugaciousness. Araki captures a poetic and intense feeling, still with a sexual connotation, but evolving into more subtle ways of expression.
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Secret Garden Party, Gelnhausen, Germany

Dead fish is one of the most traditional Vanitas motives.
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