ahhh leather...

The Thinker (wait, what does that make all the rest of us?)

I don't know if I how I feel about Bernard-Henri Lévy (and I dare ask any of my french friends), but I am definetely sure how I feel about Interview magazine and there he was, in one of the first pages of this month's issues. This is one of his quotes:

" People always say that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas, of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually you must turn your back on cliches, on preconceived ideas."
For BHL the intellectual's true duty is not to fidelity but no infidelity. I think the same applies to fashion.

Absolut & Lang

Helmut Lang may have abandoned the fashion world for years but he never fails to reappear. His recent exhibition "Alles Gleich Schwer" is now available online in a collaboration with Absolute Vodkaon its website. Visitors on teh site can download free, limited-edition posters until December 31st. An early chrsitmas gift for all of us who never get tired of the Lang aesthetic.

Nursing a fetish

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, presents a new series of work by Richard Prince. This new series of sculptural assemblages was born out of Prince's avid book collecting.
For many years Richard Prince's extensive collection of rare books has inspired his work, most notable the Nurse paintings. The chair above is the Nurse Hat Chair. The chair is an edition of 7, designed by Richard Prince, and based on a nurse's white hat, appropriating his own icon from the series of Nurse paintings. Now, there's certainly nothing new about the fetishization of nurses. The naughty nurse is one of those deeply ingrained stereotypes that just keeps surfacing—on soap operas, on Halloween, in the pages of glossy fashion magazines.
The chair reminded me of something and as I scratched my head to figure out what it was Balenciaga's Spring 2008 popped in my mind. Perhaps the idea of purity is so sexy because it triggers one imagination -in the exact opposite direction. Prince and Ghasquieres seem to agree on this one.

West Village Sailor

Morning coffee in old Jeans

16eme lady

I was walking down the 16eme cartier when I found this lady sitting on a bench. Her shoes are sexy and t there is something very military about them, which she made more evident by her choice of pants and jacket, both in different shades of green. I like how the loose, baggy pants are "funneled" into the shoe, highlighting its importance in her whole outfit. Very harmonious in the end.