RAF SIMONS' SPRING SUMMER 2002 “WOE ON THOSE WHO SPIT ON THE FEAR GENERATION... THE WIND WILL BLOW IT BACK” COLLECTION PULLS INSPIRATION FROM THE CIVIL UNREST AFTER THE EVENTS OF 9/11. WIDELY MISUNDERSTOOD AS ROMANTICIZING TALIBAN AND TERRORIST GARMENTS, THE SEASON DEPICTS THE DISGRUNTLED SPIRIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AT THE TIME. THE COLLECTION IS A CALLBACK TO RIOTERS AND ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT PROTESTERS MADE EVIDENT BY MODELS CAT WALKING WITH FLARES AND LONG SKI MASKS. THIS MINT-GREEN RAGLAN SWEATER FEATURES A LIST OF DISTRESSED AND FRAYING PATCHES THAT ARE A PLAY ON GEORGE ORWELL’S CONCEPT OF “DOUBLETHINK”. SIMONS USES THIS CONCEPT AND TWISTS IT ON ITS HEAD, EXHIBITING POSITIVE LANGUAGE ON THE PATCHES, INSTEAD OF THE AUTHORITARIAN BRAINWASHING OF BIG BROTHER.
