CLASSICKITSCH

KITSCH ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT: "Kitsch embraces cliché as a defense against the weight of human reality. Kitsch is thus a form of control, a means of dealing with the unknown.."

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above: Image from Adbusters magazine


above: Sophie Dahl photographed by Steven Meisel


above: Photography by Guy Bourdin


above: Claes Oldenburg



above: Photography by William Eggleston


above: Photography by William Klein


above: still from Paris Texas by Wim Wenders


above: Karen Elson photographed by Steven Meisel


above: Jeff Koons


above: ??



above: Photography by Steven Meisel, Vogue Nippon September 08

STREET THEATRE

above: rodchenko, heidersberger, prada advertisement





above: rodchenko, bresson, cecil beaton




above: william klein

NEW ROMANTIC

above: timothy james andrews


above: still from liquid sky


above: adam ant


above: galliano





above: images from art + commerce

LADY EQUUS

above: nan goldin


above: andrea galvani


above: tim walker


above: yayoi kusama


above: edward steichen

BLACK ROSE

YSL A/W 2008




left: Le Chou Noir evening cape, Cristobal Balenciaga, fall-winter 1967
right: cape ensemble, Olivier Theyskens, fall-winter 1999




stephanie seymour with roses



Alek Wek photographed by Wendelien Daan