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Two of the students’ presentations in the design seminar today had “WTF? ”-moments.

The one on Coco Chanel had the gun-heeled shoes – mind, she coming up with the idea that simplicity is the essence of elegance, and clothes should be comfortable and offer freedom of movement, and the designers using her brand after her death coming up with rhinestone encrusted bling and high-heeled nonsense like this, is weird, too.

My presentation on Alphonse Mucha had this concept, drawn in 1897, for a suggested pavillion for the World Fair of 1900.:

The WTF part is that it’s a remodelling of the Eiffel Tower.

That was not Mucha’s idea, but when people suggested to move the part of the Eiffel Tower above its main platform somewhere else, and were looking for ideas what to do with the base, this “Pavillion of humanity” is what he came up with.