New York Fashion Week: Men’s 2018, menswear by Raf Simons debuted his Fall/Winter presentation, “Youth In Motion,” in midtown Manhattan’s Sir Stage 37.
The catwalk was transformed into opulent tableaux complete with red wine, loaves of bread, piles of fruit and Belgian waffles, which was later donated to food rescue organization City Harvest.
The inspiration behind the collection was Uli Edel’s disturbing 1981 film Christiane F., which chronicles teenage drug abuse during Cold War-era Germany, and Cookie Mueller and Glenn O’Brien’s mid-1980s tragic-comic play Drugs, which was translated via the sardonic slogans such as “LSD,” “XTC,” “GHB” and “2C-B” embellished across sweaters, trousers and outerwear.
