\u201cAll these different people with different styles, different dress codes, it\u2019s the future, the past, Art Deco, the city, the American West\u2026 it\u2019s all of these things, and at the same time none of them. There\u2019s no one era, one thing, one look. It\u2019s the mixing of all these characters and individuals, exactly like America. It\u2019s all the beauty and emotion of America.\u201d It was with a 1985 David Bowie song \u201cThis Is Not America\u201d that Raf Simons\u2019 first runway for Calvin Klein closed. This first runway, taking place in a delicate political context, took its distance from Calvin Klein\u2019s more emblematic streetwear style that made them famous for jeans and underwear.<\/p>\n
Calvin Klein x Raf Simons came out on a runway with an installation from artist Sterling Ruby overhead and highlighted the United States\u2019 formidable diversity. The models, men and women alike, played with cowboy and femme fatale looks, virile leather, delicate see-throughs, sportswear suits, and denim.<\/p>\n
Raf Simons recently left the creative direction of Dior, but his couture inspirations remain. By mixing feathers with vinyl, fur, and other chic drapings, Calvin Klein\u2019s pieces are brought to the next level and boast an admirable unity. The ensemble is composed around lines that are faultlessly rigorous: military shirts and officer pants, long pencil skirts, strict suits, timeless trench coats, or a classic head-to-toe denim look with reinterpretations of tailoring and the Wall Street suit in between\u2026 Raf Simons points his telescope towards the entire universe. With this work of transparency with PVC pieces, dressed up and mythified upon contact with feather embroideries and other fabric matches, the runway\u2019s most desirable piece can be found in this streetwear dress with ribbed sleeves, intellectualized transparency, and silver embroidered roses.<\/p>\n
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