Flamingos

Season: aw 10/11

Show at WMF Berlin,
21st of January 2010

Fotos: Alex Kohout
Styling: Tabassom Charaf and Sonia Moser
Casting: Tabassom Charaf
Music: Terranova
Hair & Make Up:
KEV Kirsten Ellen Vietze

Glasses by Mykita


Flamingos
(Paris, Jardin des Plantes)

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Like mirror-images of canvases by Fragonard -
reflecting shimmering hues of whited and red -
they offer you no more than if a friend said casually
of his love: 'She was still sleeping softly.'

They step from water basin to the island´s green,
high on their stilt-like rosy legs, to gather -
resembling more a flowering bed of blossoms -
as they seductively hold court, more cunningly than Phryne,

Until, with pallid eyes, their slender necks and beaks
seek refuge, hiding deep within their downy wings,
where tints of black hide with the red of ripened fruit.

Quite suddenly the air is pierced by shrieks of jealousy;
they only stretch themselves and look astonished
as they stride singly past into the imaginary.