Of Earthly Delights
Dolce & Gabbana
”Penelope” wedding ensemble, S/S 2013
Valentino
Evening dress, S/S 2014
Undercover, Jun Takahashi
Ensembles, S/S 2015, printed with iconography from Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych ”The Garden of Earthly Delights”
House of Dior
Raf Simons, Evening dress, A/W 2015-16
A more abstracted interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting ”The Garden of Earthly Delights”
Valentino
Evening Dress, A/W 2015-16
Jean Paul Gaultier
‘Lumiere’, Evening ensemble, S/S 2007
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir
Armors, 2016-2018
Rick Owens
Ensemble, A/W 2015-16.
With a pee(p) hole at the crotch, Owens’ playful, subversive ”habit” evokes the popular literary stereotype of the lecherous, debauched and scandalous medieval monk, satirized by Geoffrey Chaucer in ”The Canterbury Tales” (1387-1400).
The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park
July 14th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 