All the time assured to deliver a contact of insanity and colour to Paris Vogue Week, Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck could not assist however examine the megabrands dominating the business on Wednesday.
Even by the veteran designer’s outlandish requirements, his newest menswear present was a wildly imaginative assortment, that includes tentacled jackets, huge hats, huge blue goat horns and a vibrant inexperienced gasoline masks.
Maybe essentially the most fascinating element was the jackets with holes operating from entrance to again.
All of this was applauded by Van Beirendonck’s admirers, a lot of them extravagantly wearing his earlier outfits, who see it as a much-needed burst of enjoyable within the severe world of high fashion.
The designer intentionally opted for an intimate setting this season to distinction with the massive reveals of multi-million greenback manufacturers resembling Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton.
“I do not need to make an enormous Wild West film,” he informed AFP backstage throughout a commentary at Louis Vuitton’s very costly cowboy-themed present the night time earlier than.
“I really feel like typically what they’re doing is an excessive amount of. They spend a lot cash that they need to spend it on higher issues,” he stated, laughing.
Van Beirendonck even eschewed the standard style present soundtrack, and as a substitute positioned a hidden speaker in every mannequin, enjoying artists like Pleasure Division and David Bowie.
He stated that “greater than ever” it was troublesome to outlive as an impartial label, nevertheless it was rewarding to see younger individuals discovering his work.
A number of the new collections resurrected parts of his groundbreaking 1990s work, together with prosthetics that added unusual new shapes to fashions’ faces and his personal.
“All the pieces is model new, it isn’t nostalgic. However it is a bit of a reminder of what I did previously that is popping up in all places now,” he stated.
“I’ve a whole lot of actually good followers who like what I am doing; there are actually younger individuals discovering my work from the ’90s. It is a good power.”
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