\ Striped patch appliqué T-shirt
\ AW2001, “ Riot! Riot! Riot! “
\ Size Small
\ Belgium 🇧🇪
\ by Raf Simons
\ 7,000.00 USD, Rentals available
/ Fall 2001 marked Simons’ return to fashion after a one-year sabbatical. In March of 2000, he walked away from his budding empire and took on a host of other jobs, teaching at a design school in Vienna and consulting for a Belgian shipping magnate on his art collection. A new manufacturing partnership allowed him to decrease the size of his team and work more intimately with his collaborators. The result was Fall 2001’s hyper-stylized collection of urban radicals. This was a rejection of the slim, gangly shapes of Simons’ early work. Oversize everything—bomber jackets, hoods, striped turtlenecks, trousers—made up the bulk of the lineup, with models covered completely in garments, many with scarves wrapped threefold around their faces. “At the flea market in Vienna, I saw youngsters from the Ukraine or Romania, who simply lay layer by layer and thus create their own volumes because of the cold,” he told the Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung at the time. What else to call this collection of iconoclasts but “Riot Riot Riot”? Fashion folks, accustomed to the posh environs of the First Arrondissement, might not have liked the trek to a cold, damp warehouse filled with smoke and flashing lights in Neuilly-sur-Seine, necessary to see this show—but they loved the clothes. The haphazardly layered look redefined men’s fashion in the moment, a clean break from the hyper-slim suits of Simons’ peers.
This runway represented nothing more than rebellion and showed that Raf was not shy to show the full extent of his mind despite being extremely outlandish compared to that of his peers and ideologies of this time period. Raf Simons has always continued to be true to his vision and did not let fashion norms stop it. He was the first true example of a true-to-himself and future-driven Haute Couture designer of this time.
Here we have a short-sleeve striped T-shirt featuring a variety of youth-esque patch appliqué all over the shirt - including Joy Division and Rave memorabilia. /
\ AW2001, “ Riot! Riot! Riot! “
\ Size Small
\ Belgium 🇧🇪
\ by Raf Simons
\ 7,000.00 USD, Rentals available
/ Fall 2001 marked Simons’ return to fashion after a one-year sabbatical. In March of 2000, he walked away from his budding empire and took on a host of other jobs, teaching at a design school in Vienna and consulting for a Belgian shipping magnate on his art collection. A new manufacturing partnership allowed him to decrease the size of his team and work more intimately with his collaborators. The result was Fall 2001’s hyper-stylized collection of urban radicals. This was a rejection of the slim, gangly shapes of Simons’ early work. Oversize everything—bomber jackets, hoods, striped turtlenecks, trousers—made up the bulk of the lineup, with models covered completely in garments, many with scarves wrapped threefold around their faces. “At the flea market in Vienna, I saw youngsters from the Ukraine or Romania, who simply lay layer by layer and thus create their own volumes because of the cold,” he told the Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung at the time. What else to call this collection of iconoclasts but “Riot Riot Riot”? Fashion folks, accustomed to the posh environs of the First Arrondissement, might not have liked the trek to a cold, damp warehouse filled with smoke and flashing lights in Neuilly-sur-Seine, necessary to see this show—but they loved the clothes. The haphazardly layered look redefined men’s fashion in the moment, a clean break from the hyper-slim suits of Simons’ peers.
This runway represented nothing more than rebellion and showed that Raf was not shy to show the full extent of his mind despite being extremely outlandish compared to that of his peers and ideologies of this time period. Raf Simons has always continued to be true to his vision and did not let fashion norms stop it. He was the first true example of a true-to-himself and future-driven Haute Couture designer of this time.
Here we have a short-sleeve striped T-shirt featuring a variety of youth-esque patch appliqué all over the shirt - including Joy Division and Rave memorabilia. /