Raf Simons' New Wave

January 15, 2019

In his Spring/Summer 2019 campaign, Raf Simons is bringing back the glamour and grit of men’s fashion, joining new wave club looks with the no fucks attitude of London punk and couture tailoring.

The campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo, is all about contradiction. In diptychs, models wear contrasting looks from the collection—safety pins, leather embellished with D-rings, and photographic prints of London punk framed against fitted, long coats—in sharp black-and-white photos and grainy, lo-fi colored ones.

These juxtapositions reference the duality in the collection itself. Traditional menswear looks like tailored suits in trousers were shown in soft, feminine fabrics and colors, like silk and satin in pink and baby blue. The designer also continued with his graphic obsession of the last few seasons—for last Fall, he used photos from cult German film Christiane F. and before that, Peter Saville’s Joy Division and New Order imagery—with screenprints of some of London’s coolest punks.

Welcome to the new New Wave.

Text by Antoripa Dey

Peep the campaign imagery, below.

Photos courtesy of the brand.

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