Raf Simons Mens S/S 02

[cerfas]

Wonder what's going on with the pants. Whatever it is, I like it.

[cerfas]

[cerfas]

So far, not great

[AlexN]

I've seen quite a bit of this up on eBay. I'm feeling this collection more. I guess I like the proportions more. I really don't like huge pants, so that's probably one reason I'm turned off by a lot of his work.

Edit the "20002" title if you can.

[cerfas]

[cerfas]

The hoods become too distracting from the clothes for me

[cerfas]

:/
This was not very exciting to me. Seems he had some strong political statement he wanted to convey, clothes not interesting at all.

[cerfas]

Mods, I'm sorry. I meant to write "2002" not "20002"--could you change it?

Photos from firstview.com

[cerfas]

Alex--I left out a lot of looks from this colletion. There were a lot of the same. I'm not so interested in T-shirts, it was really T-shirt oriented. That's funny, I wonder why so much of it is up on ebay right now

[faust]

This collection was the first one after Raf decided to come back to fashion. When Raf announced that he was fed up with the fashion industry and was quitting, it upset a lot of people. He came back after 1-season's absense with this collection, which produced a furor. It was widely heralded as the most progressive collecetion in years - and you can see why; nobody dared tackle politics to such degree as Raf did here. It didn't strike me much either, until I saw the clothes in the stores - exceptional quality and attention to detail.

I have this sweater in black.

[_7.]

it's so great!!! i love my white jacket from this collection! Three years ago it was very fashionable;-)

[birdofparadise]

It's interesting how he...sort of plays with the audience's emotions with the hoods, with a simple piece of clothing and what it has sort of come to mean. Of course, it's much more than that, it's the setting and the flares but he's also litmus testing the value of clothing--not just price tags but our sudden desire to use clothing as identifiers, to single out who might be a danger and who might not and who's to say what's really going on under that hood and what happens if and when it isn't there anymore?


In a way, it reminds me of Louis Vuitton a bit when they talk about making all the clothes as precious as the bags, as if every item were as whimsical and appropriate for a spur of the moment buy. In this collection (IMHO) all the clothes become 'hoods', they cloak and hide, they convey written information, demand a good deal of your attention...the sweaters can be just as threatening. There's a lack of hope there that dismantles the stigma...expertly done, fashion history for sure.

[nqth]

EDITED:-)

CFA list the AW2000/01 collection the come back collection. But rafsimons.be list the riot collection (AW2001/02) the first after sabatical. I am a litle bit confused:-)

[Moda_junkie]

cool a collection for priests

[nqth]

Originally Posted by nqth

EDITED:-)

CFA list the AW2000/01 collection the come back collection. But rafsimons.be list the riot collection (AW2001/02) the first after sabatical. I am a litle bit confused:-)

OK. this is clear now:-) I think CFA put the text in a wrong section:-)

The Riot collection was shown on Jan. 2001 and it was the first after his sabatical. This SS02 I see as the continuation of Riot.

Sorry for the misinformation.

Here is some pics from http://www.boilermag.it. They look like TV captures which has really a dangerous feelings.





Raf Simons said about this collection to showstudio.com
http://showstudio.com/projects/kil/kil_start.html