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Monday, November 1, 2010

RAF SIMONS SS02

I've been on quite the vintage Raf trip today.

In part caused by stumbling upon an impressive collection of Raf Simons archive pieces for sale at LN-CC (i'll take the Manics Camo Jacket from FW01, thank you very much) , and partly due to procrastinating doing designs for my Winter range.

Raf's SS02 collection, as well as a lot of his other early work, is inspired genius. Entitled 'Woe Onto Those Who Spit On The Fear Generation...The Wind Will Blow It Back', it's a call to arms, an anarchist manifesto of sorts. The colour palette is exclusively white, red and black, with each model's face obscured by cloths resembling arab kaffiyehs - a pretty bold statement in a post 9/11 world.

There's a great, comprehensive, season by season summary of Raf's impressive 15 year career at Hapsical, check it out. I wonder if there's much left that's worth saying with menswear.

Lodi