Begüm Sekendiz Boré is a visual artist and writer based in Paris, cross-referencing fashion with ideas from fine art and contemporary culture to create new dialogues. Again & Again collects original works by the French artist on the fashion weeks and beyond.
Raf Simons's maxim "No neoprene no futurism, just cotton and wool" traces Arte Povera, the political art movement of 60s Italy – as in his vote prints. Futhermore, the Italian penisula has been nicknamed "Lo Stivale" –The Boot. Hence Raf's sweaters with Puss in Boots detailing.
Arte Povera rejects technocracy and industrialization, both previously favoured by the Futurists in Italy. Now in France, the leaders of arte povera are running through mens' collections like water pipes through concrete slab, from Raf to Junya towards Rick.
At Thom Browne, Erwin Wurm raises a Jannis Kounellis scarecrow for Browne's timber amish barn and then shoots two birds with one stone by framing a V for Louis Vuitton.
Not unlike Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, Arte Povera artists looked to the Big Apple, yet remained "conscious of possessing an inalienable Europen identity that was irreconcilable with any other", in the words of artist Germano Celant.
Still, when Gilberto Zorio and the Japanese Issey Miyake hook up, they look to pleats please to be true.
RAF SIMONS I
Luciano Fabro, L'Italia Ipocrita, 1996
RAF SIMONS II
Giovanni Anselmo, Il Panorama Fin Verso Oltramare, 1996
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JUNYA WATANABE
Giovanni Anselmo, Grigi Che Si Alleggeriscono Verso Oltramare, 1994
RICK OWENS
Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 1966
THOM BROWNE
ABOVE Jannis Kounellis BELOW Erwin Wurm, O.T (Cajetan Gril als Mönch), 2001-2003
LOUIS VUITTON
Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 2005
GIVENCHY
Michalengelo Pistoletto, Wollen, La Mera Reintegrata, 2007
ISSEY MIYAKE
Gilberto Zorio, Untitled, 1967
Fencey Pants
Keith Haring invented Raf Simons
