Fragrance ID: Narcissist (part I)

Salvador Dali, October 14, 1964 – Madonna, Truth or Dare, 2011/2012 campaign – Rita Hayworth, The Lady From Shanghai, 1947 – Kim Kardashian, Gold, 2011campaign – Marilyn Monroe, How to marry a Millionaire, 1953 – Givenchy, Ange ou Demon, TV ad 2009 – Dolce & Gabbana, The One, 2008 campaign

“I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.”  Nirvana, Drain you, 1992

Minimalism

Hubba Bubba Gum 2011 Campaign, DDB Sydney – Navyboot F/W 2011 campaign – Yves Klein, International Klein Blue, 1956 – Lego 2006 Imagine campaign, Blatter Brunner – Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918 – Welt Kompakt 2011 campaign, Scholz&Friends

“Color stimulates certain moods in us. It awakens joy or fear in accordance with its figuration. In fact, the whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it.”

                     Hans Hoffmann, Search for the Real and Other Essays, 1948, p.45.

David is in the air

Kate Moss, Vogue UK, January 2012/May 2003 – David Bowie, 1973 – Kenzo Flower Tag campaign, 2011 (detail) – Gucci campaign F/W 2011 – David Bowie, Music Scene, November 1973

Femme libérée

Otto Dix, “Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden”, 1926 – Louis Vuitton S/S 2011 Campaign – Tim Roelofs, 2009 (detail) – Otto Dix, “La Grande Ville”, 1928 (detail)