my life is a yohji yamamoto lookbook

august sander. halting sentences. localized saturation on faded photos. welcome to the lookbook life. Tagged: Strong women / Lookbook life // / Lush days, Lush nights / On aesthetics. / ART / people of the lookbook life.

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Play and listen.

[ecrituria]

“Mallarmé reminds us of the possibility of reading before we know what to think. It’s as easy as that, as long as we are not too afraid of being wrong. In the academic world hardly anyone does it. You have to be ready for all the things that happen to someone who doesn’t read as if they belong with, or to, the right side, the side of mastery.”

— Sarah Wood, Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces

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Beginner's mind.

[swimming-in-shattered-stars]

[monview]

Björk x Yohji Yamamoto, F/W 2003 for “Another Magazine" by Craig McDean

[dekonstruktivisme]

Olivier Theyskens autumn—winter 1999—00.

For the Winter of 1999-2000 he wanted an extremely refined collection, with the occasional discord. The unity of his monochrome silhouettes was broken by several mannequins on the runway, enfolded in impressive constructions of material. “L’antinomique de l’extrémisme”, as he puts it himself. 

Olivier Theyskens: I wanted this collection to be extreme. Monochrome black, with a touch of blue and white. At the same time there was the desire to go beyond the extreme, to show the absurd.

The hardest thing is to finish a collection, to see what you want to see. It’s like a Brazilian who has made his carnival costume: he’ll spend six months making it, the stress for him will be that everything has to be perfect at the moment of the carnival parade. 

The history of costumes is interesting especially for keeping your feet on the ground, and for knowing that you’re not doing anything extraordinary either. Just look at everything that has been done in the past, and you come right back down to earth. 

In twenty years’ time people will be able to see that my clothes were made in 1999, and they will probably be very difficult to wear.  

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

In Sappho’s poem, her addresses to Gods are orderly, perfect poetic products, but the way—and this is the magic of fragments—the way that poem breaks off leads into a thought that can’t ever be apprehended. There is the space where a thought would be, but which you can’t get hold of. I love that space. It’s the reason I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought would be if it were fully worked out, it wouldn’t be as good as the suggestion of a thought that the space gives you. Nothing fully worked out could be so arresting, so spooky.

Anne Carson, from an interview in ‘The Art of Poetry No. 88′ (via prewars)

[lifeinpoetry]

she…              longs to run herself aground in a sad secret death. Is it a god inside you, girl?

Euripides, from Hippolytos, Grief Lessons: Four Plays tr. Anne Carson (via lifeinpoetry)

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Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata [x]

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

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This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

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“Cat Walk”. Photographed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch for The Gentlewoman #14 FW 2016

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カラス Crow

© jiji

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at Lisbon, Portugal

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DIALOG

By Karel Koutský

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Karel Koutský

[killyohji]

“When Borsalino Spa. was still an independent company, they used to send me a hat every year. About 10 years ago, they sent me a hat made out of the finest rat hair…They said there was nothing better than such a fine rat hair to make the thinnest felt hat ever! Indeed, you can wear it throughout the year! It became my symbol ever since.”

Yohji says that he has more than 10 Borsalino hats at home. But that one hat, made out of rat hair is his most favorite. The ripped parts are sewed and strengthened. And he still wears it. Yohji’s Borsalino is his life, he’s wearing his own life on his head.

[yohjilookbooklife]

What garments do you own like this? Mine is my old ratty Y's jacket. I love that thing.

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“Ring for Two” by conceptual jeweler Otto Künzli — 1980.

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Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent (Getty Museum)

Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent; Jean-François Millet (French, 1814 - 1875); France; 1841; Oil on canvas; 73.3 x 60 cm (28 7/8 x 23 5/8 in.); 95.PA.67; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California