Auteur : CHRISTIAN POULOT
MANIFESTO: "YOU CAN FIND INSPIRATION EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTIME"
LE MODALOGUE IS A 20 YEARS OLD POLLINACURATING ZONE, A PLACE WHERE I SHARE THOUGHTS –
HEAD OF PEDAGOGY ISG LUXURY MANAGEMENT-PARIS, LECTURER IN FASHION, IMAGE AND GRAPHIC DESIGN, 20+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN FASHION, DIGITAL HIPPIE, JEDI AND MARATHONIAN
I AM BORN ON PLANET EUPHOR AND LIVING WITH PRINCESS LIA AND LADY MONIKIA
BURNOUT: TOO FAST TO LIVE #trends
Burnout is one of the trendiest subject of the moment.
As you must be aware of the last book to speed read, the last luxury fashion collab to fast wear or the last Netflix show to binge this weekend, you must be burnout.
Everything seems to be trendy nowadays, from political ideologies, to german low-prices supermarkets, to sexual identities and even diseases.
Byung-Chul Han a Berlin-based philosopher explains that burnout (a former military syndrome) is depression and exhaustion, “the sickness of a society that suffers from excessive positivity,” an “achievement society,” a yes-we-can world in which nothing is impossible, a world that requires people to strive to the point of self-destruction. “It reflects a humanity waging war on itself.”
Feeling exhausted or overwhelmed, is a new state of being. Listen around you, not a days goes by without hearing or using this word (your coworkers, friends, neighborhood shopkeeper, kids…).
If you are not bordering and not sharing it on your Instagram account it’s like to be out of the game. Accentuated by the pandemic it’s a trending topic on Google.
Rightly or wrongly perhaps it’s time to slow down a little bit.
When your tea is too hot you drink it slowly to appreciate it.
Can’t wait to see burnout fashion, burnout art, burnout litterature, burnout movies…
PEOPLE LIVES MATTER ISN’T’IT?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
So we’re different colours and we’re different creeds
And different people have different needs
It’s obvious you hate me though I’ve done nothing wrong
I’ve never even met you, so what could I have done?
I can’t understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
And now you’re punching and you’re kicking
and you’re shouting at me
I’m relying on your common decency
So far, it hasn’t surfaced but I’m sure it exists
It just take a while to travel from your head to your fist
I can’t understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
Depeche Mode, Martin L. Gore, 1984
HOMELESS-LUXE
En 1982, Rei Kawakubo a provoqué nos intelligences avec la collection « holes« . Ses mailles déchirées, aux volumes non-conventionnels questionnaient l’interculturalité, la notion de beauté. La collection fut vouée au mépris par la critique.
La Couture de l’été 2000 de la maison Christian Dior imaginée par John Galliano était une collection homeless-chic inspirée par les sans-abris des rues de Paris. Doublures débordantes, coutures non-finies, imprimés papier journal, assemblage contrarié de matières, déchirures, trous… le tout stylisé et accessoirisé pour le podium… Là encore cette démonstration provoqua un petit scandale.

Ci-dessous une photo capturée à Paris, place de la République où la réalité rattrape la fiction des podiums, comme une mise en abyme, illustrant le style homeless-chic-hippie.

LOOK: « PICTURES OF YOU » AT COMME DES GARÇONS EXHIBITION, NYC 2017, MET MUSEUM



VICTOR PAPANEK: DESIGN ACTIVIST

Autour du designer, l’équipe minimale selon Victor Papanek, 1968
Ce diagramme, contient les prémices de la pensée design-thinking et sa dimension collaborative. Transdisciplinaire et social-inclusive il est plus que jamais d’actualité avec quelques retouches et reformulation sémantiques.

In the Nursery, that i discovered during my « so gothic » era is a musical project mostly electronic genre lead by twin brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone.
This album is the soundtrack to the film « An Ambush Of Ghosts », directed by Everett Lewis released in 1993
CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE FASHION TYPE: « COMME DES GARCONS AND THE WOMAN », NYC, 2017

ISSEY MIYAKE, PLEATS PLEASE, 2017

ARTHUR JAFA, NEW YORK 2017
Found this in my hard drives, the poster announcing « Love is the message, the message is death« , the video i saw in New-York city in 2017 of Arthur Jafa, an afro-american artist . The video is a mash-up of recordings of police violence and clips of Black artistry and creativity.

