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Since An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx first
presented their original and very unique take on industrial/medical
hospital fetishes, seen as their first Spring Summer show in 1999 with
models been displayed on beds and the runway set up to be a hospital
ward. The ground breaking and stalwart uniqueness of the A.F Vandevorst
brand continues on twenty years later. With their 20th year
anniversary show for Spring Couture 2018, they’ve projected a mix of
every runway show since 1999. Which is of Vandevorst and Arickx’s
eclectic and innovative projections which are undeniable, as is their
exceptional styling.
In all of the cultural declines within the last twenty years, it has
been the plundering or directly copying the past for ideas as, on a
sociological and psychological level, popular culture and society
remains trapped in a negative paradox, in which they cannot project or
is in fear of a future. When actually, a
future doesn’t exist
anyway. To offset the fears of that inability to identify with a
tomorrow. Our plans and ideas should be set from the now. The
present. Neither for a future and nor drawing from the past to
recreate. This is essentially the failure of schools and inflated
academia, to push young people into an idealism of readily available
ambitions. That have already occurred. So a plagiarized rehash or
reboot is done in a quick succession. Under the pretext everyone is
going to make it. Of course, when it comes to innovation, ideas and
creativity. Only a few will make it and it is hard work. Reworking (or
in most cases copying) the past, rather than using its underlining
inspirations, it therefor becomes a quick fix for a concept, as
mentioned, that had already happened. As it is a habit which has now
become ingrained into a broad perspective of popular culture. The
mainstream movie industry, with all its hypocrisy and ivory tower
irrelevance, currently is the biggest culprit.
So what if you plunder your own past for ideas? Rework previous
pieces and have them displayed as a benchmark of 20 years of invocation
and hard work. Such is A.F Vandevorst’s Spring 2018 collection. That
would be a question that may not have a direct answer. It maybe neither
negative or a positive, in its display of 20 years of progression.
For all A.F Vandevorst’s complete collection filmed please refer to:
https://vimeo.com/user10516974
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