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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2005, July 3, 2004

BoF’s Editor-at-Large time-travels back to the Belgian designer’s tenth anniversary collection for his namesake label, entitled ‘History of the World,’ which delivered a poignant spirituality: Angel Youth!
Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2004 | Source: INDIGITAL.tv & FashionAnthology.com
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  • Tim Blanks

It’s an odd sensation, looking back on fashion shows that swept me up in a moment of strange exaltation. How do I communicate that emotion years after the fact? And how inappropriate does such an endeavour seem in a moment when the world is convulsing in a perfect storm of natural and human catastrophe? (I warn you: that challenge is only going to intensify with some of the shows I have in mind for upcoming weeks!) Cling to the exaltation, I say. Salute the spirit of creativity that seeks uplift in whatever darkness destiny throws at us.

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