November, 17th, 2013

LOS ANGELES | KEMBRA PFAHLER FOR SAINT LAURENT | L’OPEN ED DIPLOMATIQUE

“If you think about it, rock-and-roll should be formal, almost like opera or ballet.” Kembra Pfahler

As Louise Bourgeois cruelly stated it “Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognising oneself, which is why it will always be modern.”, Modernity is about self. Reinvented self.

If Hedi Slimane is serious (and I believe he is) to come up with something to knock all the extreme punk rockers off their pedestal, façon de parler, Kembra Pfahler should ride us to the farthest of Saint Laurent’s couture.

Now to be an (extreme) couturier, you need three things. White Enthusiasm, Noir Optimism and Empty Minimalism. Hedi is all as well as Yohji Yamamoto, Ann Demeulemeester, or Rick Owens (and muse-wife Michèle Lamy) with their sensual and tragic contrasts and values. All tend toward the extrapolatable reconciliation of light and darkness in the fluid and asymmetrical and shifted designs, much like the cinematic masterpieces from the Hollywood thirties.

Are you ready to scream “Viva la trans re-evolution !” my Rock-Punk-Grung’n’Roll underground babies ? It already started in your wardrobes.

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (Kembra’s prêt-à-couture Band)
and Yves Saint Laurent’s Proustian moods are the one and same Futurist Manifes[ex]to.

Dark times require dark voices.

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