Dan The Scout photographed by Scott Schuman, AKA The Sartorialist, outside Ann Demeulemeester’s womenswear show at the Couvent Des Cordeliers in Paris, September 2009.

Asymmetric jacket by ASSIN

Vacuous Numb, a film by Fly 16X9 , directed by Gray Scott. Featuring Ann Demeulemeester.

Ann Demeulemeester’s polaroids are a beautiful, fresh addition to A MAGAZINE curated by HAIDER ACKERMANN. See my article here.

“The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when
you have gone to the earth I will let my hair
grow long for your sake, I will wander through
the wilderness in the skin of a lion.”
The Epic of Gilgamesh

“Let me now re-emphasise the extreme looseness of the structure of all objects.”

“Each person had their moment when they assumed the skins of wild animals.”

“They had removed the skin from their own bodies.
They had leapt into different colours as if into different countries.”

“We’re veiled in flesh.”

“lights, he said.”

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IN THE SKIN OF A LION

Shifting identities:  a study of layers, textures, shadows, exposure and disguise.

Photography by Kasia Werstak.
Styling by Dan Thawley, Dan The Scout.
Model: Michael Whittaker @ DNA.

With a selection of quotes from Michael Ondaatje’s ‘In the skin of a lion‘.

A reflective self-portrait taken through a window on the street in Antwerp at 3:15pm on the 17th of July, 2009.

Skip Divided, Thom Yorke | © XL Records 2006