Catalyst

Comme des Garçons: Furniture Catalog, 1990.

Ensembles from the It’s Only a Game Collection

Alexander McQueen

Spring/Summer 2005

McQueen designed the 2005 collection It’s Only a Game around the idea of a chess match between America and Japan. Each ensemble corresponded to a particular chess piece.

The queen wears a short, thigh-high dress, which is wide at the hips, a silhouette based on the eighteenth century. A kimono collar, obi sash, and an undershirt beautifully embroidered to look like tattooing are all drawn from Japanese culture. Next to her, the king appears as an American football player, with shoulder pads and a helmet covered in Japanese tattooing.

     -Andrew Bolton

Nr. 24 by @andre_beato

Concrete Mixer by Man Ray, 1916, Guggenheim Museum

Size: 55.9x37.8 cm Medium: Pochoir print with ink on paper

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Gift, Peggy Guggenheim, 1979 © 2016 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris