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Avant garde fashion: Vetements 2017

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Vetements most recent collection show cased at Paris, remained true to their avant grande trade mark of minimalism and deconstructed style. Flowing silhouettes and a-line cuts, mixed with bright and muted tones, instantly capture the eye. With double layered denim jackets, high waisted skin tight, stonewashed jeans and orange hoodies, their latest collection has attained instant cult status.

Vetements is a recent addition to the high end fashion market, showing its first collection in fall 2014. Yet instead of couture, they've successfully delved into making 'casual', fashionable with a personality of its own. With exquisite workmanship and high quality fabric, and Paris as its home, Vetements is redefining the traditional atelier. Simplicity with ingenuity appears to be the set standard of Vetements ['Clothes' in French]. 

The head designer is Demna Gvasalia, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, known for avant grande designers like Dries Van Noten and Martin Margiela and others who are often referred to as the 'Antwerp six' and like them the design team of Vêtements is as mysterious and exclusive as ever. Before studying at Antwerp, Gvasalia grew up in Georgia under Soviet Rule and as he told Business of Fashion, it 'meant that me and my friends, we all had the same clothes.' And after living a 'gypsy lifestyle' and attaining his design education, Vêtements came to birth in 2014 with no previous intention of even becoming a highly anticipated label. 

After announcing it's secret pop up shop in LA called 'Dry Cleaning' set for February 9th, Vetements is a label continuing to indulge our curiosity to what they do next and inspire the fashionably creative. 

 

 

-Hiba Ali
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Photo Credit: Vogue.com