Raf Simons SS98 “BLACK PALMS” LOOKBOOK, POSTER, AND POSTCARDS
Condition: Great
Spring 1998 was Raf Simons’s sixth collection—and second-ever runway show. In three years he had established himself as the buzzing Belgian talent of the Paris menswear schedule. Titled “Black Palms,” the collection was presented in a parking garage in Paris’s Bastille neighborhood to the loud sounds of Lords of Acid, Permanent Fatal Error, Reese & Santonio, and A Split-Second. The models were carted in from around Europe; Simons would put out radio ads looking for lean youths—most not professional catwalkers, and most bearing some resemblance to Simons’s own image or that of his friends: rangy and ready for action. The silhouette of the show, too, was inspired by the designer’s own. Simons once described his wardrobe of the era as “black outfits; long, skinny; white Stan Smiths.” That was echoed in the elongated inky pieces on the runway
Condition: Great
Spring 1998 was Raf Simons’s sixth collection—and second-ever runway show. In three years he had established himself as the buzzing Belgian talent of the Paris menswear schedule. Titled “Black Palms,” the collection was presented in a parking garage in Paris’s Bastille neighborhood to the loud sounds of Lords of Acid, Permanent Fatal Error, Reese & Santonio, and A Split-Second. The models were carted in from around Europe; Simons would put out radio ads looking for lean youths—most not professional catwalkers, and most bearing some resemblance to Simons’s own image or that of his friends: rangy and ready for action. The silhouette of the show, too, was inspired by the designer’s own. Simons once described his wardrobe of the era as “black outfits; long, skinny; white Stan Smiths.” That was echoed in the elongated inky pieces on the runway
Condition: Great
Spring 1998 was Raf Simons’s sixth collection—and second-ever runway show. In three years he had established himself as the buzzing Belgian talent of the Paris menswear schedule. Titled “Black Palms,” the collection was presented in a parking garage in Paris’s Bastille neighborhood to the loud sounds of Lords of Acid, Permanent Fatal Error, Reese & Santonio, and A Split-Second. The models were carted in from around Europe; Simons would put out radio ads looking for lean youths—most not professional catwalkers, and most bearing some resemblance to Simons’s own image or that of his friends: rangy and ready for action. The silhouette of the show, too, was inspired by the designer’s own. Simons once described his wardrobe of the era as “black outfits; long, skinny; white Stan Smiths.” That was echoed in the elongated inky pieces on the runway