Krõbedat pakast jagub veel vähemalt nädalaks pealinn.ee - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pealinn.ee Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Arrow
The occasion for reflection comes as Simons reissues 100 of his most iconic pieces in a capsule collection called Raf Simons Archive Redux, which has been wildly buzzed about since the designer announced the project last summer. Again, the sheer mention of it pulls fashion lovers out of the woodworkâin the months I have been working on this project, somewhere in the vicinity of three-dozen different people have messaged me asking about it.Â
Arrow
One of the first was David Casavant, the New Yorkâbased collector and archivist who perhaps single-handedly vaulted Simonsâs past pieces into icon status by placing them on Kanye West, Rihanna, and other influential celebrities. âRemaking the original pieces shows how fashion is looked at as more of an art form now, where the original works are appreciated to such an extent to reissue them,â Casavant says. âIâm excited to see core grail pieces like the hoodies and parkas and how theyâre rem
Looking back at it, Raf Simons’s spring 2002 collection was eerily prescient. Presented on January 7, 2001, the show featured wrapped and masked models holding torches. A gesture of terror, fear, and even cult mentality, it pre-dated the September 11 terrorist attacks by nine months and the G8 protests that led to a civilian death by six, but offers a startling parallel in hindsight. It’s that ability to take the temperature of the world even of things that have not yet happened, and filter it through fashion that is Simons’s strength.
The clothing mimics the swaddling of the models’ faces: large, bulbous white jackets and trousers, with aggressive interjections of red, yellow, and black. Models walked barefoot through a 6th arrondissement lycée in Paris, while Fuse and The Fall played on the sound system. Peter de Potters’s graphics, always a bit uncanny, featured aggressive slogans like “Be pure, be vigilant, behave” and the word