human & nature or modern mimicry

Tilda Swinton is an extraordinary actress and an outstanding personality. For the new Pringle of Scotland ad campaign Ryan Mc Ginley highlights her enchanting & ethereous appearance and shows her in a kind of mystical symbiosis & mimesis with nature, plants & environment; with her weaten hair floating in the cornfields, roaming the woods, creeping in an abandoned castle and becoming one with the ocean in the end.

Tilda Swinton for Pringle of Scotland, by Ryan McGinley. here you can find the mystical video.

walk don't run.

go ahead. in quietness, but straight forward. and just walk, don't run. all my best. to me and you and everybody, for this new year still enwombing rum starts of happyness, creativity and inspiration.

Just put a pair of Victor Boa Shoes on, the perfect summer loafers, named after Victor Boa, a virtuoso Panamian Jazz pianist and drum across the street as Victor's fingers tickle across the piano...

 

Put a rock jacket on, just like this one (Olympia Le-Tan for A.P.C.) because all our hearts are lonely hunters.

 and a pair of nice sunglasses, like Alexander Wang's cat eyes.

and don't mind if these things don't match, you'll figure it out, your personal style.

yeah, and don't forget to read and watch, books and blogs, art fairs and films, magazines and newspapers...

your marie beau.

About fantasy and phantasm. Souvenirs of a simple time.

When I first saw it this morning, I could barely believe it. Horst, whom I am worshiping more and more for making me smile every day - you really have to check out his blog which is so different, so refreshing and surprising - was exhuming some very distant and well covered childhood memories. But in reading this one word "Fantaghirò" and in looking at these stills out of the movie, I suddenly felt shifted back in this jaunty light-hearted years of my childhood. Where I spent my time between Christmas Eve and New Year's day in watching these fantastic Italian fairytale movies "Fantaghirò" and "Desideria and the ring of the dragon": full of fantasy and phantasm, witches and wizards, adventurous and rebellious princesses, wicked warriors, mean stepsisters and bewitches princes, battles and love in desert and snow.

This makes me longing, longing for this simple time, but above all longing for fiction, fantasy and phantasm these films already carry in their titels: "FANTAghirò" and "Desideria", personification of longing and desire: so I am longing for Victor falling in love with Desideria without ever seeing her face, only recognizing her by her VOICE, for prince Romualdo loosing his heart to Fantaghirò without properly seeing her face, only recognizing her by her EYES. And all these girls dressing up as men...

Dear Mr. Zizek, 

this is also a message for you, wouldn't you be interested in interpreting these films with your psychoanalytic methods, this would be real fun, I am sure....

"Fantaghirò" and "Desideria and the ring of the dragon" directed by Lamberto Bava.

Beautiful still selection by Horst.

Ephebos. from boys and bears.

Strengh and control of every single muscle and vein. Absolute precision and beaty, pureness and grace.

Hedi Slimane who delights us continously with the sublime photography of his personal as well as his fashion diary now did a film - about a boy and a bear. pirouettes in the snow, tension and lightness in absolute grace.

This video reminds me Greek art and its aesthetics, the cult of male beauty embodied in it and its idealisation as absolute beauty in 18th century art history, and the emblematic formula developped by the German archeologist Johann Winkelmann:

"noble simplicity and silent greatness" - edle Einfalt, stille Größe 

(one has to pronounce these beautiful words in German)

www.hedislimane.com

haute fourrure

  

favorite winter garments: timeless chic.

because crisp cold and sharp frost shall not overcome good style.

 

elegant 

Azzaro couture AW 0910

 

casual rock 

Balenciaga aviator jacket AW 04/05

image via  jak&jil blog

 

inside out 

anica fur vest AW 0910

seen at lesmads

Just married - une comédie humaine by Terry Richardson

DESIRE LUST & LUXURY.

 

 

 

Just discovered this vintage French Vogue shoot (February 2008) - starring a fabulous Natasha Poly and the grandios 102 year old french actor Pierre Gérard in the ironic and grotesc comedy of the young wonderful lady marrying an old rich man. what a beautiful, crude and sharpened satire about ruthless lust.

credits:

photographe: Terry Richardson

styling: Emmanuelle Alt

Vogue Paris, February 2008

thank you for shopping

Fashion photography often shows models posing ridiculously. There's a real art of posing, a whole repertory of facial expression showing the models like dolls, staring into space, with their mouth wide open, lost somewhere in abstract thoughts, dreaming and longing for some absolute in order to appear erotic, sexy, mysterious and inaccessible - everything the reader - we- expect from these perfect women. The conceptual photographer/illustration and design Duo Gustav von Arbin and Vassili Brault shows the models in the very same poses in a very interesting story called "thank you for shopping" alluding evidently to the customer's attitude and expectations. But, instead, they show the models grasping for air, suffocation under plastic bags painted in acrylic over their faces. A sacastic and critical, yet very beautiful artwork.

"To highlight the irony often held within model poses in editorials, we turned obvious sexualy explicit pictures meant to display designer clothes, into a show of models gasping for air."
Thank you for shopping."

 

Credits

GUSTAV VON ARBIN/VASSILI BRAULT

RICHARD BERNARDIN/MARCUS OHLSSON

www.gandv.se

discovered at sans saveur ni odeur.

void.

Daul Kim departed. no more forking.

Nothingness. Emptiness. No sight. No sound. No life. Form without life. Leap from the wall. Life without you. I just can't seem to get a meaningful grasp. Dead end. Dead caligraph. Broken bone hands Or a fucking handle on the madness. Black adracula. No mans land. The grenade in the glovebox. The deep dark unfathomable unknowable. Lights off. Nowhere's ville. The rotting cartoon. Shite that makes a mockery of anything. No beginning. No good god. Meets the end of roads. We ever ever ever fucking try to do. Infinity colossal. Evades me insignificant. Escapes from me. Avoids light. You and me. Me and you. The gap between us.

poem by Damien Hirst read lurve magazine issue 2.

Satyricon

Russian photographer Alexey Kiselef known for the editorials he did for Dazed&Confused, ID or Russion Vogue for instance does more than only sightly fashion photography. With his artwork he goes far behind the surface. He takes current symbolic codes from today's fashion and media discourse, twists them around in an ironical and satyrical sense and exposes its debauched, obscene and lubricous aspects.

This photo triffles with lots of codes:

Alexey evidently refers to Diesel's SS 08 "live fast" ad campaign showing a young and sexy women changing her baby's napkin while sprinting on high heels, the vaunted ideal of looking still more sexy in the fifties than in the twenties just like Madonna or Sharon Stone, and for sure the trend of adopting children  - and so many more...

 

so for all of you who have the chance to live in BERLIN, you definetely should go there:

Random
Alexey Kiselev
13.-27.11.2009
Opening 13.11.2009, 19h
Lucas Carrieri Gallery
Torstr. 96, 10119 Berlin

all images by Alexey Kiselef:  www.kiselef.com

and above all thanks to Mahret from f&art due to whom I discovered Alexey's artwork.

The Wonderful issue

this is already my third post on Lara in one month: but she is just wonderful!

Lara Stone named "girl of the year" on the December Cover of British Vogue photographed by Mario Testino.

Lara Stone wears white tulle corset dress, Dior Haute Couture. Corsages, around waist, from a selection, Basia Zarzycka. All make-up by Dior. Hair: Sam McKnight. Make-up: Val Garland. Fashion editor: Lucinda Chambers
photo: www.vogue.co.uk

have a look at the making off

girlspower: lara & camilla

Lara Stone for ERES SS2010 Cruise Collection,

photography by Camilla Akrans

via: wwd

love Camilla Akran's pure aesthetics and Lara Stone's radiating sensuality!