(16 Jan 2014) BELGIAN DESIGER RAF SIMONS COLLABORATES WITH ARTIST STERLING RUBY IN PARIS
Friends for nearly a decade, Belgian designer Raf Simons and L.A. artist Sterling Ruby combined their talents for a co-branded menswear collection they showed at the Place Vend�me in Paris on Wednesday night.
"We've known each other for quite a while, we're pretty good friends but I think we also respect each other's likes and dislikes: iconographies, histories, our music culture. I think we've got a pretty good collaboration, you know, just in terms of friendship," Ruby said.
They created the entire collection in tandem, from the oversized rubbery moon boots in bright orange to the strips of fabric and fluorescent stripes sewn onto roomy jackets, the images of planet Earth or sharks, the repeated words "Fathers" or "Abus Lang," the paint splatter effect in different colors, and the disembodied hands with long manicured nails clinging to briefcases or various pieces of clothing.
"The whole idea was to bring the two worlds very close to each other, you know, like there is different bodies of work within his total body of work, you have like the bleach collages, they are very connected to fabric and fabric treatments and the use of fabric, they are actually built up purely with fabric, they're not painted," Simons said.
The crowd included American rapper A$AP Rocky, whose hits include the song "Fashion Killa."
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