“She has two faces,” he said backstage, referring to his friend Cindy Sherman, who had first inspired the idea. Since their friendship began some six years ago, Takashi had detected a contrast between Sherman’s work and her personality, and it mystified him. He printed her self-portraits in the style of all-American Fifties housewives on his sweet (and evil) dresses, cut in the mid-century silhouette.
“She has two faces,” he said backstage, referring to his friend Cindy Sherman, who had first inspired the idea. Since their friendship began some six years ago, Takashi had detected a contrast between Sherman’s work and her personality, and it mystified him. He printed her self-portraits in the style of all-American Fifties housewives on his sweet (and evil) dresses, cut in the mid-century silhouette.
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