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VIBE SHIFT 🍇 #DACBE: For #DriesVanNoten, the #SS23 menswear collection wasn’t just a bold return to the Parisian runway, but also an aesthetics shift. “The Zazous in Paris in the 1940s, and Buffalo in London in the 1980s. Both were in periods which were a bit similar. Hard times. So we wanted to make our own version of that.” In these, our disturbingly Right-swinging times, you could catch the significance of the timing behind Van Noten’s wanting to work a queer anti-authoritarian reference. More on the JOURNAL 🍷 #Paris #PFW #ParisFashionWeek #Menswear #Dandy #Burgundy #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🥀 #collage by me.
FIRE 🌋 #DACBE: The #RickOwens #SS23 show gave armageddon vibes. Or at least that is what the massive fire orbs, lifted by crane high above the guests, and then dropped to a sizzling impact in the Palais de Tokyo fountain were there to represent. Ruminating during the line-out pre-show, Owens said: “the fireballs are flaming suns, arcing across the sky, and crashing to the ground. But I did it on repeat because it happens over and over.” He was referring to human fear of our extinction – whether through war, pestilence, or other generationally specific worst case scenario. “’I’m always trying to reassure myself that whatever is happening in the world right now – whatever conflict or crisis or discomfort – it’s happened before. And somehow goodness has always triumphed over evil, because otherwise we wouldn’t be here now.” Those words bring glimpse of hope especially in 2022, with war happening in Ukraine and Supreme Court’s outrageous overturning of Roe v. Wade. More on the JOURNAL ☄️ #Paris #ParisFashionWeek #PFW #WorldOnFire #Menswear #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🔥 #collage by me.
Junge Wilde is alive and breathing… obsessed with #ElviraBach’s vibrance, now showing at @galeriedeschler. ❤️‍🔥 Also discovered two amazing contemporary artists @stephanpopella and @madeleinerogerlacan 🎯 Sometimes #Berlin really feels like the one in Suspiria (Luca’s version) and I love it 🩰
Berlin on a Saturday 🌹 Blooming flowers, all the #DriesVanNoten goodness at #AndreasMurkudis, summer is here… 💌 #Berlin
LAYERED ODDITY 💖 #DACBE: “It’s a bit like Gothic cathedrals, a Flemish vibe… like Bruges”, #GlennMartens described his #SS23 collection for #YProject. The multi-layered oddity of the Belgian town became the key reference for the designer and his collection filled with distorted glamour. More on the JOURNAL 🌹 #PFW #Paris #ParisFashionWeek #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🪗 #collage by me.
HARMONIOUS SUBLIMITY 🧡 #DACBE: #HedMayner‘s menswear collections are Paris Fashion Weeks’ moments of harmonious sublimity. In his notes, Mayner made it clear that he doesn’t do “overwrought statements of seasonal quirk.” Rather, season after season he revisits scaled-up proportions, honing them as a sculptor might. “I started by trying to build a silhouette that has a strong contact between front and back, and just being this two-dimensional look with a contrast,” the designer offered backstage of his #SS23 line-up. More on the JOURNAL ⏳ #PFW #Paris #ParisFashionWeek #Menswear #ManFashion #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🧺 #collage by me.
TAKE IT SLOW 🎼 #DACBE: The #Lemaire #SS23 presentation was a beautiful, harmonious scene. “It’s always nice to see people when they are in between things,” #ChristopheLemaire said. “And people are very much themselves,” #SarahLinhTran added. As a result, this was a refreshingly straightforward collection that put the clothes on a pedestal of reality. More on the JOURNAL 🎺 #Paris #PFW #ParisFashionWeek #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🪕 #collage by me.
WHAT’S MODERN? 🧤 #DACBE: #JonathanAnderson is nailing it again, being in his cheeky, surreal element. For men’s #JWAnderson #SS23, the said he’d been moved by “the shock of theater” to shape a collection that tested our perceptions of clothing and modernity. The BMX handlebars, shattered skate decks and CDs were there to remind us of the ephemerality of modernity, and its inevitable descent into anachronism. The wearable assemblages were a witty commentary regarding overconsumption. “Fashion is a very modern device,” he said. “But it is not a modern act.” More on the JOURNAL 👖 #Milan #MilanFashionWeek #MFW #Denim #Resort2023 #DACBECOLLECTIONS 👔 #collage by me.
END OF AN ERA 🌺 #DACBE: It’s end of an era at #Etro: with a new creative director appointed, the Italian brand is departing from its family roots. Marco De Vincenzo is taking the lead, and will show his first collection in September. #VeronicaEtro and #KeanEtro waved a good-bye with their last collections: women’s #Resort2023 and men’s #SS23. They represent what the siblings did best at the brand: rhapsodic, poetic and joyous fashion. More on the JOURNAL 🌞 #Milan #MFW #MilanFashionWeek #SummerTime #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌼 #collage by me.
CHOICE 🧥 #DACBE: Whenever #Prada delivers a collection focused solely on all-time classics, it’s clear that some sort of recession is coming. If shopping for new clothes, no fashion-statement impulses – only rational choices. Investment pieces that will become a wardrobe staple, or rather “choices”: that’s exactly what #MiucciaPrada and #RafSimons‘ #SS23 menswear collection is about. More on the JOURNAL ☕️ #Milan #MilanFashionWeek #MFW #WillemDafoe #TrenchCoat #Menswear #ManFasion #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🫖 #collage by me, music: “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus.
SURFBOARD 🏄🏼‍♂️ #DACBE: For #SS23, #DsQuared2 went surf-boy-mode. Dean and Dan Caten’s layering extravaganza inspired by surf culture and 1970s Jamaica is just what a stinking-hot summer wardrobe needs and wants. The Catens worked with the Bob Marley Foundation, which granted them permission to reproduce a portrait of the reggae genius on T-shirts, beach totes, and bags. “We liked the vibe of that time, and the freedom and rebellion he represented,” they said backstage. “Peace and love, and the joy of music.” More on the JOURNAL 🌺 #MilanFashion #Milan #MFW #SurfBoard #SurfBoy #SurfLife #VanessaReid #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🐚 #collage by me.
GARDEN BOYS 🌼 #DACBE: This is #ErdemMoralioglu‘s second menswear season, and his vision of the #Erdem man becomes more refined and clear. The picturesque vision for #SS23: handsome, young men standing in an English country garden, against beds of succulent purple and yellow flag irises. More on the JOURNAL 🌞 #Menswear #GardenLove #London #ManFashion #DavidHockney #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌾 #collage by me.
ARRIVAL ✨ #DACBE: For her brilliant #SS23 collection, #GraceWalesBonner mentioned “Sankofa”. This bird-looking-backwards symbol of Ghana’s Akan people, she said: “means’ ‘going back to go forward.’ It is not about being nostalgic or historical. It’s about taking something from the past in order to pass it forward and make it useful for the future. And that’s the spirit of this collection.” #WalesBonner was speaking in the central courtyard of #Florence’s #PalazzoMediciRiccardi, the key space of #PittiUomo event. The Palazzo had been waiting 485 years – the time since it was once home to the first Black head of state in modern Europe – to become the outbound runway for Grace’s Sankofa flightpath. Its starting cipher was #AlessandroDeMedici, who until his assassination in 1537 at the hand of a cousin ruled here as the first hereditary monarch of the Florentine Republic. His mother was named #SimonettaDaCollevecchio – aka “Soenara” – and was Black. She became mother to Alessandro after an encounter with either Duke Lorenzo (the official father) or Pope Clement VII. “I wanted to acknowledge that presence but also think about the idea of arrival,” said Wales Bonner. More on the JOURNAL ❤️‍🔥 #Menswar #ManFashion #KerryJamesMarshall #LiyaKebede #DACBECOLLECTIONS ❣️ #collage by me.
IT’S HOT, HOT 👄 #DACBE: “I never gave up on being dressed, even when the trend was about sportswear,” says #SaintLaurent’s #AnthonyVaccarello of his #PreFall2022 collection, the until-now-unseen curtain raiser to his sublime and epic winter show, presented earlier this year. “I am glad that people want to dress up again, because for me nothing has changed.” More on the JOURNAL 💄 #SoChic #ItsHot #FauxFur #YSL #Sublime #DACBECOLLECTIONS 💋 #collage by me, music: “Heroin” by #LanaDelRey.
TEXTURE & SHAPE 🍋 #DACBE: In the pre-seasons, the #ProenzaSchouler duo leans into experimentation. A scroll through #Resort2023 images makes it clear that #LazaroHernandez and #JackMcCollough are strongly attracted to texture and hand-feel. Their other preoccupation here was shape. On this subject, they revisited the corset tops that were the building blocks of their earliest collection. “Old Proenza vibes,” Hernandez said. And that’s the direction the designers should continue to embrace. More on the JOURNAL 💛 #NewYork #Textures #Tactile #Yellow #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🧀 #collage by me.
CJR AND THE CITY 🗽 #DACBE: Joy, pleasure, exuberance! For #ChristopherJohnRogers, all that seems to come naturally. #Resort2023 was Rogers’s first IRL show in over two years. “I wanted to say that everything can exist together, everything makes sense if you will it to. I like the idea of multiplicity and that so many things through one specific scope can shine.” More on the JOURNAL 💞 #NewYork #JoyOfDressing #Exuberance #SexAndTheCityStyle #AndJustLikeThat #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🍸 #collage by me.
IMBUED WITH MEANING 🌞 #DACBE: At the #NewYork-based brand #Bode, #EmilyAdamsBodeAujla’s collections have always been rooted in the persona. The lived histories of friends, family members, and even places all hold keys that unlock the fantastical trove of embroideries, embellishments, prints, and colors that have established Bode as one of the most exciting new American labels on the scene. For #PreFall2022, now hitting the stores, however, Adams Bode Aujla turned inward, looking for inspiration to her own wedding to her longtime partner and collaborator #AaronAujla, which took place in their newly purchased home upstate and brought together Punjabi traditions from his upbringing as well as ones from her mixed Southern/East Coast heritage. More on the JOURNAL 🌼 #Marigold #Tailoring #ClothesThatTellStories #Menswear #ManFashion #DACBECOLLECTIONS 💛 #collage by me.
LOVE YOURSELF 🌞 #DACBE: She’s THE #Mugler goddess-babe-bombshell-queen. For #SS22, #CaseyCadwallader reunited with #TorsoSolutions for the final installment of a trilogy of Mugler fashion films. Filmed in Los Angeles, the mind-bending video features a variety of vignettes that blend trippy glitches with the signature Mugler fierceness. Another day, another slay, period. More on the JOURNAL 💥 #ChloeSevigny #HaleyWollens #Goddess #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌪 #collage by me (3/3).
LOVE YOURSELF 🪐 #DACBE: She’s THE #Mugler goddess-babe-bombshell-queen. For #SS22, #CaseyCadwallader reunited with #TorsoSolutions for the final installment of a trilogy of Mugler fashion films. Filmed in Los Angeles, the mind-bending video features a variety of vignettes that blend trippy glitches with the signature Mugler fierceness. Another day, another slay, period. More on the JOURNAL 🔥 #LourdesLeon #MeganTheeStallion #BellaHadid #HaleyWollens #ChloeSevigny #Goddess #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌪 #collage by me (2/3), music: “Plan B” by Megan Thee Stallion.
LOVE YOURSELF 🐆 #DACBE: She’s THE #Mugler goddess-babe-bombshell-queen. For #SS22, #CaseyCadwallader reunited with #TorsoSolutions for the final installment of a trilogy of Mugler fashion films. Filmed in Los Angeles, the mind-bending video features a variety of vignettes that blend trippy glitches with the signature Mugler fierceness. Another day, another slay, period. More on the JOURNAL 🦈 #LourdesLeon #MeganTheeStallion #BellaHadid #HaleyWollens #Goddess #DACBECOLLECTIONS 🌪 #collage by me (1/3).

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