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One can't say that Raf Simons plays its safe when it comes to Calvin Klein. Settling into his position at the creative helm of the fashion house, Simons brings a more conceptual approach to menswear. Continuing a departure from the label's clean athletic-inspired lines, the Belgian designer sampled various American references for fall-winter 2018. This...
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Raf Simons Reveals His AW18 Men's And Women's Collections For Calvin Klein 205W39NYC

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Finally we made it to the barn. If you've been paying attention, a barn has been featured in all the latest Calvin Klein campaigns. Inside the barn Sterling Ruby pom poms hung from meathooks and buckets overflowed with popcorn. The runway crunched, so salty, flooded with popcorn. A nod to Andy Warhol's ‘Popcorn' (1976-1986) perhaps? We do know that Raf Simons has got his hands on some unpublished Warhol works. “He captured all sides of the American experience, including sometimes its darker sides,” Raf said of Warhol. Yes, this was the dark side. In Space Race bonnet-like balaclavas the...
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A-list gets in the popcorn at Calvin Klein during NYFW

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A-list stars Nicole Kidman, Lupita Nyong'o and Margot Robbie flocked to Calvin Klein on Tuesday, wading through popcorn to watch Raf Simons's latest meditation on Americana, where firefighter meets prairie.
The Belgian's stewardship of the iconic US label, now into a second year, is one of the few bright spots in a New York Fashion Week suffering from an identity crisis, thinning schedule and a glut between the passing of one generation and the search for another.
Ruby Sterling again designed the set. Barns evoked the pioneer spirit of the prairies, adorned with work by Andy Warhol - also...
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Enter Raf Simons' pop dystopia at Calvin Klein

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It's been one year since Raf Simons and his team showed their debut collection for Calvin Klein , and what a year it's been. When he accepted the job as chief creative officer at the behemothic American brand, he had no idea that America itself would become an unrecognisable landscape of political horrors in less than 12 months - how could he have? Yet his debut collection exhibited a sense of dystopian, deranged glamour that read...
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