Singularity

Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2011

This collection is not going to be produced - so they say. Well who gives me a neoprene college T-shirt now? Where is my flattened 2D coat? Where my black trash bag plastic trousers? It's a sad sad world.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking

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.
/HORST

A Short History Of The Plastic Raincoat In Popular Culture III

1. Maison Martin Margiela by Mark Borthwick
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2002
3. Unknown
4. Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2007
5. Tush Magazine by Diego Fuga

All good things must come to an end. But we'll cry no single tear, we'll walk in the rain. Well prepared, armoured in Margiela, Raf Simons or Jil Sander. As I said: All good things must come to an end.
/HORST

Medusa: Main Corpus

Top Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2010

Medusa's snakes have chosen me. An eternal spell engraved onto my skin. Tattooed by a thin frayed layer of organza. The prophecy of our precedent prequel has fulfilled itself. And I devote myself.
/HORST

Medusa: Second Prequel

1. Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2010 by Satoshi Saikusa
2. Li, H.R. Giger 1974

Facing the condemned and seemingly unaesthetic. The ugly and hated. To finally establish a version of beauty and fascination that is constituted of one's very own fears and preconceptions.
/HORST

Sex In The Woods

1. Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2007 & Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2010
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2002 & Rag & Bone Fall/Winter 2010

I am still turned on by the idea of creating a forest worker. To make it easier attaining this look I have compiled a few hard-on looks from my vast fashion archive. Work it!
/HORST

Little Dress Fight

Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Alex Katz The Black Dress, 1960

Two artists in their own right. Two interpretations of one timeless classic. The uniform of the intellectual elite. The little black dress. Now available for both sexes. I'm a woman.
/HORST

Flashback

Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2009

The perfect sneaker. The exuberant explosion of colour and structure. A classic suit's best friend. In fact, Horst's new best friend. Rivets, mesh and detachable neoprene gaiters.
/HORST

Consequence

Viktor & Rolf Fall/Winter 2001 & Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2004

When the body serves as nothing but a three-dimensional surface and becomes the message itself. When colour absorbes identity. When clothes become art installations of their own.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking

Meander

Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2010

It's mine. It's tacky. It has snakes on it. It's definitely borderline. Yes, it's actually kitsch. But it's Raf. And it's mine. Mine. Mine! How nice it feels, this fulfilled shopping enthusiasm.
/HORST

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.
/HORST

Image credits Style.com, designboom

170 BPM

Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2011

My first thought: Techno. Extreme flares, tight cycling shorts and pencil skirts. White, pink and lemon. Impregnated T-shirts, shiny tops and sleeveles jackets. I'm a late 90s teenager again.
/HORST

Image credits Catwalking