garment gapes

"Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance."—Roland Barthes

[fruitchouli]

[nyc-looks]

Haidee

“My coat and belt are by A Detacher, the jeans Dries van Noten, the sweater is vintage Champion, the scarf vintage, the shoes and glasses both by Céline.”

Mar 23, 2018 ∙ Lower East Side

[nyc-looks]

Shikun, 27

“I’m wearing a vintage dress bought in Edith Machinist and a Ralph Lauren Fall16 patchwork coat. I don’t have a specific style, I change my style everyday. My favorite designers are Dries Van Noten, Uma Wang and Loewe. Recently I like purple a lot, don’t know why.”

Mar 28, 2018 ∙ Greenwich Village

[lamignonette]

[himneska]

Katya in the Suburbs. Photographed by Laura Leal for Lula Japan Online, November 13, 2019.

[lamignonette]

[fuckyeahmayaderen]

Maya Deren.

[neshamama]

william eggleston, “untitled,” 1971, pigment print

[neshamama]

[teenagedirtstache]

[pleats-me-deactivated20221130]

Issey Miyake

[lucky-number-8]

Faye Wong wearing Bernhard Willhelm, 2000.

[nyc-looks]

Lina, 29

“I’m wearing all secondhand as I hardly buy anything new – a pink lace up top with a crochet cardigan and silk pajama bottoms with Dansko clogs. I get inspired by so many things: I love objects like vintage blankets and pillows for their textures and colors. I also look to female characters in fairy tales, scary stories and female subjects in art. Old photos of my mom and outfits I had as a child inspire me too. To me, style is all about portraying how you feel and what you are thinking about inside.”

Sep 21, 2019 ∙ MoMa PS1

[milkalternativegurl]

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子)

From the booklet included with the Meiko Kaji - Best Collection (梶芽衣子ベスト・コレクション) box set.

[sixteensaltines]

From Vogue Archive

[mabellonghetti]

Francoise Hardy, c. 1965. (Photo by Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images)