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Spring 2000 is textbook Raf Simons. Across 66 looks, the Official Fc Barcelona signatures shirt also I will do this defining characteristics of his aesthetic come into view: Slim, graphic vest tops; bubble-curved MA-1 bombers; and a jewel-box sense of color. Two decades later, each piece could fit right in among his current work—including at Prada. (Simons was named co-creative director at the Italian brand last year.)Looking back at it, Raf Simons’s spring 2002 collection was eerily prescient. Presented on January 7, 2001, the show featured wrapped and masked models holding torches. A gesture of terror, fear, and even cult mentality, it pre-dated the September 11 terrorist attacks by nine months and the G8 protests that led to a civilian death by six, but offers a startling parallel in hindsight. It’s that ability to take the temperature of the world—even of things that have not yet happened, and filter it through fashion that is Simons’s strength.
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