De Androgyne man
For spring/summer 09, Pilati drew on themes that have informed his vision for menswear, particularly the idea of the 'third sex' inspired by the teachings of Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium.
Divided into seven 'chapters', the film features hot young Britisch actor Jack Huston(...)sometimes surrounded by semi-naked, amorphous forms, sometimes alone, standing against a bare wall with a naked light bulb swinging overhead, switching genders as he moves in and out of shadow. In other scenes he draws an emblem representing the third sex on a door, then disappears through it or wanders through a landscape formed from the female nude.
In a fictional test shooting, Jack runs through the scenario nine times, each time dressed in a different YSL look, reciting Plato in English and French: 'The original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in a number; there was a man, woman and the union of the two, of which the name survives but nothing else. Once it was a distinct kind, with a bodily shape and name of its own, constituded by the union of the male and the female: but now only the word 'androgynous'is preserved, and that as a term of reproach.
Tekst: GQ magazine: David Bradshaw
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