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January 22, 2025
Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck stated Wednesday that the style world was “afraid” of US President Donald Trump and failing to talk out towards him for industrial causes.
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Speaking to AFP after his menswear present at Paris Style Week, Van Beirendonck stated he hoped extra artistic folks and leaders in vogue would take a stand on Trump’s “disgusting” rhetoric.
Van Beirendonck present featured fashions with jackets bearing “peace, not war” badges and concluded with “Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
“I think it’s on everyone’s mind. It’s horrible what is happening in the world right now,” he stated. “Too much war, too much extreme right.”
The 67-year-old stated he wished to react to Trump’s inauguration on Monday “and I also hope that more creative people will react”.
“They should talk more,” he advised AFP. “They are all afraid of selling less, the money is an issue, that’s why we see the most incredible things happening and nobody is reacting.”
The feedback by the outspoken Antwerp-based unbiased designer come two days after Trump’s inauguration in Washington, which was attended by French vogue tycoon Bernard Arnault and two of his kids.
LVMH boss Arnault and his daughter Delphine, who runs Dior, got distinguished seats behind outgoing president Joe Biden and different previous American leaders.
The European company vogue enterprise, which is dominated by LVMH and Kering, is thought to be frightened in regards to the attainable affect of a commerce conflict between the US and Europe below Trump.
If Trump slapped tariffs on high-end European clothes and leather-based items, American customers would want to pay larger costs at a time when the luxurious market is dealing with a worldwide slowdown.
Van Beirendonck’s present on Wednesday featured smatterings of his typical brilliant, clashing colors together with extra traditional loose-fitting fits in brown and navy Scottish tweeds.
He returned to his common theme of encountering alien life, which he has used previously as an emblem for range and outsiders.
Paris Males’s Style Week kicked off on Tuesday with Louis Vuitton inventive director Pharrell Williams presenting his fifth assortment for the model on the Louvre museum.
In a collaboration along with his pal and Japanese designer Nigo, the present featured softly tailor-made fits in on-trend browns and tweeds, together with streetwear-inspired baseball jackets and lengthy bermuda shorts.
Paul Smith and French model 3.Paradis introduced their autumn-winter 2025-2026 collections on Wednesday.
Numerous prime labels are bedding in new designers or in search of recent inspiration in a market dealing with weaker-than-usual demand in China specifically.
Lanvin is ready to return after a two-year hiatus on Sunday, presenting Peter Copping’s debut assortment because the inventive director of France’s oldest couture home.
Notably absences embody Givenchy, whose new chief designer Sarah Burton has reserved her first assortment for Girls’s Style Week in March, in addition to Loewe, whose inventive director Jonathan Anderson is rumoured to be on the way in which out.
Hedi Slimane left his function as inventive director at Celine in October, John Galliano give up Maison Margiela in December, and Chanel unveiled their new artistic director, Matthieu Blazy, solely a month in the past.
