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Moritz Rogosky's Game of Horseshoes
By: Timothy Hagy
Photos by Javier Mateo
PARIS, Jul 1, 2002/ FW/ --- The subterranean level of the Pompidou Centre was the setting
for the summer 2003 show by Moritz Rogosky.
A big square of black benches was arranged on the gray floor, and the models zigzagged
from one side to the other, as they made their way along the trajectory.
The first stop was a horseshoe pit, where each one paused to take aim at the stick.
Unfortunately, not a single one of the models on the 44 different turns managed to hit
the target, and perhaps that was symbolic.
There were some beautiful molded sweaters with a V-cut, super-tight tapered suits, and
above all several ingenious bathing suits with spliced belts and bows.
Even a trench coat with split tails seemed to float.
And despite the obvious talent of the designer, the show never really gelled.
The colorful horseshoes, painted on the back of the models' heads, did more to blur
the point than to clarify it.
Nonetheless, 6 stories up in the Musée de l'Art Moderne, there is a peculiar plaster igloo
with an open door that invites many a visitor to pass through and contemplate the timeless
question: "What is art?"
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