Raf Simons S/S 1997 “16, 17, How to Talk to Your Teen” video via [x]
The collection was presented in a photo studio in Paris. A video showing 14 teenagers who run out of school and finally come together in an imaginary U.F.O., an environment created by themselves where they can indulge their fantasies in contrast with their daily life and earthly things such as school, parents, etc. The showroom was decorated with three large pictures taken from the video, and with 25 seventies style Plexiglas photo-cubes with photo’s of the teenagers.
The silhouette is again tight and close to the body, inspired by the Mods and the Punks in combination with schoolboys and surf boys. The materials are classical combined with vivid colours. They look old and washed off. Trash t-shirts with prints or pearls and shirts embroidered with ‘Teenage Summer camp’. The colours: red, jeans, brown, kaki, white, grey and black.
Raf Simons | SS 1997 | How to talk to your teen
