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Siouxsie Sioux, c. 1980s

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does anyone have that unsettling oil painting of a dark window with a sheet leading out into the darkness? it did the rounds on tumblr a while ago and i need itttt

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Devon Aoki by Carlijn Jacobs for Acne Studios SS23 Campaign

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A promotional still of David Cronenberg and friend for his remake of The Fly (1986).

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SS23 sandy liang ad by me

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Onchi Kōshiro

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Robert Wun Spring 2023

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Triangle of Sadness, 2022

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L'urlo del vampiro, 1961

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Siouxsie Sioux in Seville, 1989. Photo by Anton Corbijn.

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Stop, Personal Message (️Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber)

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Sisters of Mercy, Danceteria NYC, 1984

Photographed for Propaganda Mag by Fred H. Berger

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“My work is timeless because it’s based on the beauty of the human body and the fascinating world we live in,” said Thierry Mugler.

Never one to shy away from daring endeavors, Mugler staged photoshoots in some of the world’s most breathtaking settings including: icebergs in Greenland, the White Sand of New Mexico, and the Tlalpan Chapel in Mexico City to name a few. 

Here, Claude Heidemeyer poses on the edge of the Chrysler Building for an aptly-named photograph, “Vertigo,” in 1988. Mugler’s keen eye as a director resulted in photographs and campaigns that helped to convey his exhilarating point of view.

See more of Mugler’s photography as part of Thierry Mugler: Couturissime on view now.

📷 Thierry Mugler (French, 1948–2022). Chrysler Building, New York, 1988. Claude Heidemeyer in “Vertigo” by Mugler, 1988. Photographic print, 35 11/16 × 23 7/8 in. (90.6 × 60.6 cm). Courtesy of Mugler Archives. © Thierry Mugler

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Red Trees by RinwenVilye

This artist on Instagram

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How people perceive themselves is nothing that interests me. There are very few that are gonna look in the mirror and say: The person I see is a savage monster. Instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. And there it is. You’re rich, so you’re a philanthropist, so you can cure your conscience for not paying enough in tax. Not contributing enough to society. And I recall, I was seven years old walking into the kitchen to find my mother crying inconsolably. Martin Luther King had been shot. Two months later, she was crying again. Bobby Kennedy was killed. I couldn’t know then what I know now, that the invisible thread connecting Martin Luther King, the Kennedy brothers, and Malcolm X, was that in each case, my government had their finger on the trigger. My government murdered Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy and John F. Kennedy. My government overthrew good, honest, democratic leaders of the people in Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama and Bolivia. Along with Britain, we carved up the Middle East, creating artificial geological boundaries and installing puppet dictators. War itself became our most lucrative industry. Every bomb that is dropped makes somebody millions of dollars. You don’t have to know where those bombs are exploding. You don’t have to see the grieving mothers and the mangled bodies of their children. Eugene Debs gave this speech in Canton Ohio, in 1918: “Throughout history, wars have been waged for conquest and plunder. The master class has always declared wars. The subject class has always fought. They’ve taught you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. - Triangle of Sadness. (2022) dir. Ruben Östlund

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1996 photos (a Polaroid and the proposed cover) that were meant to have been on the cover of Wired magazine in the UK. I think I preferred the one they finally used from a different part of the photoshoot because it was impossible to see what I looked like in it, so I was on the cover of a magazine and anonymous at the same time. But these were sweet. I guess they would have painted out the wires if they had used one of them.