Reblog: March 07, 2022. VTMNTS. FALL 2022 MENSWEAR - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 


"VTMNTS being the offshoot of Guram Gvasalia's Vetements, has so far revealed two collections, to which I reviewed the debut Spring 2022 collection, returns with a Fall 2022 array, that once again offers a tailored affair within Guram's experimental and antithesis fashion designs. Which, one should know by now that the Gvasalia's brothers are the famed Georgian fashion designers, who have had significant impact on the fashion world when they first revealed their Vetements collection in 2014 for Paris Fashion Week, with Demna leaving the brand that he created to be with Balenciaga. By its definition the Gvasalia’s have cleverly orchestrated their antifashion ethos under a luxury banner, by redefining elements of the fashion industry, from Ready-To-Wear through to Couture, ensuring Guram's VTMNTS keeps the distinction that is his contra styles alive and well. 

As the pandemic abates, sans the next mutation, across the Western world and runway shows return, a new threat has emerged, that being the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Which by proxy has set off a new Cold War. The situation is a terrible reminder on how, that despite globalized markets and feigned ideas of stability via digital networks, we are all vulnerable to calamity. Of course, some more the others, thoughts are with the Ukrainians who are under constant bombing from Russian forces. However, if the pandemic was an indicator and teacher that asymmetrical responses to a crisis and lack of coordination with dealing with viral outbreaks, this new cold war is also indicative of what we don't see coming, does, at the end of the day, reveal our overconfidence that everything is rosy..."
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