Moncler 5 Craig Green. Spring 2022

 

(Images:  Moncler 2022)

After a two year hiatus, Craig Green returns for the Moncler Genius collection, with his ceremonial, insulated protective styles and themes based around  seafaring.  Which, as a men's collection, Green has, even prior to the global pandemic, experimented with the oracle like monks dressed in liturgical attire, within his cult like fixtures.   Green, aware that climate change is causing the world's oceans to rise, has always, in my opinion, questioned how we tend to overstate ourselves as a stable collective force that can deal with calamities, the reality is, when tackling the pandemic, we only need to see the chaos that this micro entity caused the human race; with all of its bickering and politicization in tow – we're truly the animals of pandemonium.    Green's experimental Moncler attire, offers, at least aesthetically, how our environments will end up shaping culture and fashion as a visual template, which has always represented itself to be that beacon of a changing society. 

Yet, Green fixations that have a darker resonance beneath its nautical colors, are by definition representing a positive, even accepting tone of our dire predicaments.  Thus, these adjustments and the need for humanity to make in our changing environment, society and culture, are not that harbour of doom, but rather, we should face the end by creating a new beginning.  And it is Green's unique perspective on fashion that enables the viewer to imagine those renewed concepts as an acceptance over denial.  With his nautical flag inspired colors, each coded with a warning or information about the weather, particularly with look number 5 pattern of the large red square against usually a black background, in this case dark blue, indicating a storm coming. 

Green’s collaboration with Moncler continues on in its unique imprint for the French/Italian mountaineering company.   Yet, as the war wages in Ukraine, with Putin making an all in bet to reclaim countries that were once under Soviet control.  Moncler's base of operations are based in Romania, which not only lines the border with Ukraine, could also be vulnerable to Russian aggression. 

Storm clouds are indeed on the horizon.

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