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  • sbw4224
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 571

    A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)



    Dior Homme Executive #1- "Kris Van Assche is turning off the customer base that once made the brand famous, what shall we do?"



    Dior Homme Executive #2- "Don't worry - I have connections with most "underground" fashion magazines. We'll feature him in as many as we can to regain our lost cred."



    Dior Homme Executive #1- "Brilliant."





    Looks like this will be the first A Magazine that I won't be buying.




    However,
    "A MAGAZINE #8 curated by TSCI (Givenchy) is planned fall 2008." An edition featuring Givenchy could be interesting...




  • iSuck
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2008
    • 536

    #2
    Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

    I love KVA.

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    • Faust
      kitsch killer
      • Sep 2006
      • 37852

      #3
      Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

      When is Ann going to make one?!
      Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

      StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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      • Avantster
        ¤¤¤
        • Sep 2006
        • 1983

        #4
        Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

        [quote user="sbw4224"]


        Dior Homme Executive #1- "Kris Van Assche is turning off the customer base that once made the brand famous, what shall we do?"



        Dior
        Homme Executive #2- "Don't worry - I have connections with most
        "underground" fashion magazines. We'll feature him in as many as we
        can to regain our lost cred."



        Dior Homme Executive #1- "Brilliant."





        Looks like this will be the first A Magazine that I won't be buying.


        However,
        "A MAGAZINE #8 curated by TSCI (Givenchy) is planned fall 2008." An edition featuring Givenchy could be interesting...

        [/quote]



        Haha, nice one, sbw. Hrm, looks like I may be the same, here. (Haven't got around to getting the VB one yet). Doesn't really interest me. Thanks for for the heads up, though.








        WE HAVE THE PLEASURE TO
        ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF A MAGAZINE .

        AFTER MARTIN MARGIELA,
        YOHJI YAMAMOTO, HAIDER ACKERMANN, UNDERCOVER?S

        JUN TAKAHASHI, MARTINE SITBON, VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO THE NEXT CURATOR IS

        KRIS VAN ASSCHE .



        A Magazine #7




        On
        the threshold of his 31st birthday Kris Van Assche was appointed
        artistic director at Dior Homme. In January 2008 he presented his first
        catwalk show for Dior, an emotionally charged moment and a milestone in
        the career of this young designer. Amidst the turbulent preparations
        for the show and the presentation of his own label?s men?s and women?s
        lines, we invited Kris Van Assche to be our guest curator of A MAGAZINE
        #7.
        Already in our early conversations it became clear that Kris
        wanted to work with people he felt connected to. He didn?t want to opt
        for big names only, but rather for the people that fascinate him or
        those whose creative input had inspired and enriched him in the past.




        The
        various collaborations with photographers, authors, stylists and models
        in A MAGAZINE #7 are the result of Kris? search for true human contact
        within the creative process. Fine examples are the contributions of
        Wiglius De Bie and Gaëtan Bernard, both close acquaintances of Van
        Assche. Kris asked Wiglius to portray his team, at Kris Van Assche and
        at Dior Homme. Gaëtan Bernard?s reticent black and white portraits are
        silent witnesses to the fittings for the first Dior Homme collection.
        In these images Kris resembles a dancer subtly leading his model in a
        shrewd game of seeking contact and taking distance.




        Photographer
        Sarah Moon was so generous as to provide us with a previously
        unpublished series of portraits she made of her good friend and artist
        Jacques Monory who, with his typical ?gangster look? of raincoat, hat
        and sunglasses, embodies the ultimate Kris Van Assche man. Snapshots
        from Van Assche?s own travels in Latin-America, Morocco and Turkey
        surface on several occasions throughout the magazine. They offer a
        counterbalance to his public life as a designer and can be seen as a
        representation of the delicate balancing act between private and public
        life every designer needs to perform. His series of dreamy close-ups of
        the whirling dervishes in Istanbul form both a dramatic contrast and a
        welcome break after Nan Goldin?s dramatic backstage portraits at Dior.
        Goldin was virtually standing on Van Assche?s feet when she made
        them?taken at that exact moment when he screens his models one last
        time before sending them out onto the catwalk, pumped up on adrenaline
        with their faces strained under ?high tension?.




        The words
        ?poetic? and ?romantic? recur constantly in reviews of Van Assche?s
        work. In A MAGAZINE #7 Kris wanted to highlight the various facets of
        the poetry in his work. The poetry he finds reflected in the strive for
        the elusive dream within the images of artist duo Parkeharisson as well
        as that which is created when you show your vulnerability and allow
        other people into very personal aspects of your work. For the two
        fashion shoots in this issue, one featuring the Dior men?s collection
        and the other Kris Van Assche?s own women?s collection, Kris asked his
        friend, Mauricio Nardi, to be responsible for the styling and to
        portray his own interpretation of the collections, a task he has never
        trusted to anyone but himself until now.




        Intrigued by his
        ?uvre and appreciating the poetry he brings to the world of porn, Van
        Assche invited Jeff Burton to shoot the campaign for the Kris Van
        Assche men?s collection. Radically, Burton chose to use three porn
        actors in the sultry settings of an LA laundromat. Kris wanted to be an
        observer on the set and asked Burton to transcend the boundaries of a
        traditional commercial campaign. They shared a hilarious and for Kris,
        at times, very recognizable conversation about creativity, doubt,
        shame, pride, family, vulnerability, respect and freedom. Burton?s
        mother?s reaction when he first told her that he worked in the porn
        industry became this issue?s leitmotiv.




        Let go of all your prejudices, be inspired and dream away with A MAGAZINE #7!




        Kaat Debo, editor in chief




        April 2008




        let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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        • Trendy Andy
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2007
          • 268

          #5
          Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)



          Hate to break this to you bro, but Wesley Snipes is behind bars for the next 3 years. [83] Hes been convicted for misdemeanor tax charges. Your going to have to find another right hand man for the job. Someone reliable, like Jason Statham or something. [86]



          I just had to take a peek in this thread because I semeone put *bleh* next to Kris Van Assche's name. [74] That dude is a "hit or miss" type of designer.






          [quote user="new_dawn_fades"]



          i didnt read all those words just then



          this is a joke right? please tell me




          Ok KVA assasination need to be planned.. basically i need a few volunteers and we shall snipe the mufucka down in his studio while hes watching some man porn and jerking off.. we have to strike when the moment is just right



          people please... we need to rid the world of this problem.



          the dude is turning the already boy obsessed Dior homme thing to new levels.. This cannot be tolerated! not on my watch!



          ive got samuel jackson and wesley snipes on my team... ur welcome to join




          [/quote]

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          • laika
            moderator
            • Sep 2006
            • 3787

            #6
            Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)



            lol, ndf.



            I try to keep an open mind, but I am admittedly not so excited about this.[72]



            Tisci would be great though.

            ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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            • Faust
              kitsch killer
              • Sep 2006
              • 37852

              #7
              Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)



              they obviously don't respect mr. lang's cock.



              why are you all high on tisci? i don't think he's anything to get excited about.

              Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

              StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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              • matthewhk
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2007
                • 1049

                #8
                Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                speaking of A Magazine, this sounds like a long shot but does anyone know where i can find scans of the issue curated by Yohji? If not the whole thing, then maybe just the Yohji interviews (if there were any at all). Thanks.

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                • laika
                  moderator
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 3787

                  #9
                  Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                  Matt, why not just buy it? It's a beautiful issue. Available here.
                  ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                  • matthewhk
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2007
                    • 1049

                    #10
                    Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                    ah didn't know it was still available - thanks

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                    • sbw4224
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 571

                      #11
                      Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                      You'll enjoy the Yohji issue - it's definitely the best out of all of them.

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                      • Johnny
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 1923

                        #12
                        Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                        I was reading it again last week..it's really good. I was thinking that a Yohji freak would really love it. There's a pretty long interviwe with him at the start. I love the pictures of the kids with the big oversized (yohji?) shirts on running around in the countryside. My wife says it reminds her of being a kid and on holiday on the west coast of scotland.

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                        • laika
                          moderator
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 3787

                          #13
                          Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                          [quote user="Faust"]


                          why are you all high on tisci? i don't think he's anything to get excited about.



                          [/quote]



                          surprised to hear that, Faust. I would have thought his combo of melancholy, sensuality and romanticism to be right up your alley.

                          ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                          • Faust
                            kitsch killer
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 37852

                            #14
                            Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                            [quote user="laika"][quote user="Faust"]


                            why are you all high on tisci? i don't think he's anything to get excited about.



                            [/quote]



                            surprised to hear that, Faust. I would have thought his combo of melancholy, sensuality and romanticism to be right up your alley.



                            [/quote]



                            You are right - total brain fart on my part. I must have been thinking of someone else. [72] Just looked over a few collections to refresh my memory and they are very lovely for the most part.



                            I'll take two of these, thank you very much [:O]



                            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                            StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                            • laika
                              moderator
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 3787

                              #15
                              Re: A Magazine #7 - Kris Van Assche (bleh)

                              that's just beautiful. is it from a givenchy collection?
                              ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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