It’s the end for Raf Simons’ eponymous label after 27 years, the designer revealed on Instagram on Monday — here are his 9 Most Memorable Fashion Shows.
Simons collaborated with the artist Franky Claeys to print stars and palm trees onto bare bodies of models walking the show, whom he scouted via radio ads. Shirtless models walked in a big garage in the Bastille quarter in Paris with keffiyehs [a traditional checked headdress worn by those in the Arabian Peninsula] around their naked bodies, with black trousers; vests with the keffiyeh print and The Sex Pistols’ “Never Mind The Bollocks” album cover; and little skinny black waistcoats.
The Belgian designer enlisted the help of graphic artist Peter De Potter for his collection that was a response to the aftermath of 9/11. Models came out onto the runway barefoot with fire torches in hand wearing loose white balaclavas; the words “Hope,” “Resistance,” “Visibility,” “Vigilance,” among others, could be read on the garments; utility jumpsuits belted; and oversized sweaters with billowy wrists.
It’s a collection famed for Simons’ take on British sensibility: red, yellow and blue schoolboy knitwear sweaters; slouchy musician tailoring; leather bombers with smart trousers that blur the dress code of casual-formal; and a subtleGiovanni Giannoni Simons has long been obsessed with youth, Americana and artist Ruby Sterling — all of which feature in this collection that kicked off with Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon.” The clichés were present — a round picture of Earth from outer space; black canvases splattered with white paint to resemble stars; and more splattered tailoring in purple, blue and orange.Simons’ collegiate collection took getting dressed to new scales: XXL.
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