Archive for ‘wear’

Mais les modes ne doivent pas être, si l’on veut bien les goûter, considérées comme choses mortes ; autant vaudrait admirer les défroques suspendues, lâches et inertes comme la peau de saint Barthélemy, dans l’armoire d’un fripier. Il faut se les figurer vitalisées, vivifiées par les belles femmes qui les portèrent. Seulement ainsi on en comprendra le sens et l’esprit. Si donc l’aphorisme : Toutes les modes sont charmantes, vous choque comme trop absolu, dites, et vous serez sûr de ne pas vous tromper : Toutes furent légitimement charmantes.       Baudelaire – Le peintre de la vie moderne

 
 
 

1989 MM silhuette (ph: AH)

… if we want to enjoy fashions thoroughly, we must not look on them as dead things; we might as well admire a lot of clothes hung up, limp and iert, like the skin of St BArtholomew, in the cupboard of a second-hand-clothes dealer. They must be pictured as full of the life and vitality of the women who wore them. Only in that way can we give them meaning and value. If therefore the aphorism ‘All fashions are charming’ offends you as being too absolute, say – and then you can be sure of making no mistake – all were legitimately charming in their day.

HELLO WORLD



Denpasar airport.



Jakarta airport.
photos AH

 

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    Ira in vintage Martin Margiela pieces from the F de C collection.
    photos: Tony Nathan


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SILK ROAD
F de C rectified readymades: ex-Armani black silk skirt ,
ex-Dries Van Noten black silk multi-functional piece,
white lace top AF Vandevorst, shoes Costume National.

photo: Max Pam. West China. 1986

 

photos: A H ; model Chiharu

 

 

yui wearing a ’09 MMM remake of the original 1989 cigarette shoulder jacket.

PLEATS/KNIT (A.H.)



Yumiko Kikuchi is wearing a MMM replica jacket . outtake from FdeC Reader #1 ( self-portrait with the assistance of Matsuki Narishige )




(上) view from the roof of Cafe Alba (Dongcheng, Beijing) which is hosting an FdeC presentation through june ’12//
  (下) Yui wearing a vintage Mao Jacket from the Cultural Revolution era with Margiela skirt and boots. (meguro, tokyo)


Martin Margiela fringe dress +
American Aparel tights.

Helmut Lang dress + Junya Watanabe gloves.
Top: no brand Shorts: American Aparel.
Martin Margiela fringe dress
American Aparel tights
Marsell shoes.

Issey Miyake T-shirt / Junya Watanabe Skirt
Top: Uniqlo Skirt:Tsumori Chisato Shoes: Repetto
Photos: Chiharu Ozaki 2007-2009





曲(Twist)一箴 has been wearing his Mao jacket for over twenty years. Home Shop Beijing. (photo a.h.)

Takashi Nishiyama in the harbour of his hometown Kisarazu, Chiba wearing items from his own first collection with a jacket by Kanya Miki. (photos ah)

 


   

 

Clothes

Franz Kafka

Often when I see clothes with manifold pleats, frills, and appendages which fit so smoothly onto lovely bodies I think they won’t keep that smoothness long, but will get creases that can’t be ironed out, dust lying so thick in the embroidery that it can’t be brushed away, and that no one would want to be so unhappy and so foolish as to wear the same valuable gown every day from early morning till night.

And yet I see girls who are lovely enough and display attractive muscles and small bones and smooth skin and masses of delicate hair, and nonetheless appear day in, day out, in this same natural fancy dress, always propping the same face on the same palms and letting it be reflected from the looking glass.

Only sometimes at night, on coming home late from a party, it seems in the looking glass to be worn out, puffy, dusty, already seen by too many people, and hardly wearable any longer.

Translation Willa and Edwin Muir



style systems. Bali 2012. ( ah )
 
 


 
 




 

Flat graments. A-poc (issey miyake/dai fujiwara) cca 2001. fdec archive
 
 
 
 

  yui making sense of a Viktor & Rolf rayon one-(four-)piece dress at home  (ph: ah)




  yui making sense of a Viktor & Rolf rayon one-(four-)piece dress at home  (ph: ah)


 

photos: Max Pam, Valparaiso 2011


Ayako is wearing her work shirt with thick slices of australian beef  
in commemoration of the exhibition The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
(FdeC110005) , Tony Nathan and Alin Huma , held in Sydney oct. 2011 .    
(shin-koenji, tokyo. ph. ah. )                                    
                         
                           
                   
               

                           
                       
                   


  Alin is wearing Raf SImons, Jil Sander, Comme des Garcons
  over espresso macchiato.
  photo Pierre Toussaint

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                                Givenchy , Martin Margiela


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                                            Veina and Hyun wearing   Anne Sofie Back, Jack Mauritsz

           

                PAWKING METAW  crown st. ( a.h ) 
                               


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