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In Paris, Raving Out of Lockdown

The Paris men’s fashion week that closed Sunday was a wildly hedonistic, riotously liberated affair, high on neon colours and crazy shapes, reports Angelo Flaccavento.
Walter Van Beirendonck, Louis Vuitton, Loewe. Courtesy.
Walter Van Beirendonck, Louis Vuitton, Loewe. Courtesy.

“Resist the blandness of the sleeping masses” shouted a garishly dressed punk rock band before a pogoing crowd in Walter Van Beirendonck’s “Neon Shadow” video, pretty much summing up the energy at the Paris men’s fashion week that closed today: a wildly hedonistic, riotously liberated affair high on neon colours, crazy shapes, glimpses of skin and the long repressed desire for gatherings and trippy connections in out-of-the-ordinary clothing.

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