You cannot deconstruct unless you know how to construct. - Alexander McQueen

archive for March 11th, 2015

Lady in Concrete

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

I had just read about the newly restored Hollyhock House when I did my afternoon gambol to style.com and read Tim Blanks mention it in his write-up on Rick Owens’ Fall 2015 collection. Am I reading the Internet’s mind, or is it reading mine? Or are we ONE???


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Rick Owens Fall 2015

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mayan Revival Hollyhock House in L.A.

On to other Fall 2015 memory game matches. So as soon as I saw Gareth Pugh’s show-closing Britannia…

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…my mind went here:

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Kevin O’Neill’s Britannia in latex from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 2009

I would not have questioned it if this look from Marko Mitanovski’s latest was buried deep within Charles Fréger’s Wilder Mann photo stream:

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Marko Mitanovski Fall 2015, detail.

Wilder Mann, photos by Charles Fréger:


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