PERSONAL JESUS

(left) Luca Heintz – Blazer, shirt and necklace – DIOR HOMME | (right) Luca Hermann – Blazer and shirt – DIOR HOMME | Necklace – stylist’s own

shirt – YOHJI YAMAMOTO

Coat, turlteneck top, trousers and boots – LOUIS VUITTON

Coat – KENZO | Necklace – stylist’s own

Suit and boots – GIVENCHY | Necklace – stylist’s own

Coat, trousers and boots – MAISON MARGIELA | Shirt and rings – DIOR HOMME

(left) Suit, top and boots – MAISON MARGIELA | (right) Top – MAISON MARGIELA | Underwear – ACNE STUDIOS

Down Jacket and jumper – RAF SIMONS | Shirt and trousers – FAITH CONNEXION | Shoes – VERSACE

Boots – HAIDER ACKERMANN

(left) Blazer and waistcoat – ANN DEMEULEMEESTER | (right) Jumper – GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY

Underwear – ACNE STUDIOS | Boots – RICK OWENS

Trousers – YOHJI YAMAMOTO

trousers – YOHJI YAMAMOTO

(out) Blazer and shirt – DIOR HOMME | Necklace – stylist’s own | (in) Blazer, shirt and necklace – DIOR HOMME

This story is all about the limits of love and desire, possession and narcissism. Photographer Kenny Germé and stylist Edem Dossou, who recently styled ‘The Trade’, use oversized stiff and tailored looks in contrast with the theme of destructive identity and forbidden desire  to create a black, white, and red story of impossible unrequited love between two brothers. The lustful one bewitches the other with a spell to possess him. In the end all that is left of the two brothers will be a story of a master and his marionette.

Germé was heavily influenced by the very chic pale and dark aesthetic from classic vampire movies such as Nosferatu by Murnau (1922), or Dracula by Browning (1931), or more recently, Dark Shadows by Tim Burton (2012). Viennese Actionism movement, Marilyn Manson makeup and Rick Owens Men FW16 aesthetics further inspired this story.