Excerpt: CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN. SPRING/SUMMER 2021 - LONDON FASHION WEEK.

 "...The UK designer Christopher Raeburn is one of the more renown of fashion designers who has utilized the mountains of unused and discarded clothing and fabrics, mostly sourcing Essential Services off cuts and Military surplus for his collections, he has, over the course of the many fashion weeks that have past, offered a solid and well presented array.  As noted with my reviews of the very few seasonal fashion lookbook's to date, there has been a stripped back and sparse offering on show.  Designers, by a force of hand, have reduced their collections substantially, offering a more defined and thought out show case than previous Fashion Weeks.  Due to the austereness of quarantines and lockdowns, it has been indicative of what materials were available for designers in creating their latest designs and by its nature,  represents the epitome of slow fashion.  

Raeburn has further added to this opportunity to instill his stalwart practice of recycling, by declaring in an open question for his 2021 lookbook: “What could be more radical than making nothing at all”, with a new business model called “RAEFOUND” Raeburn has picked through the massive stockpiles of NATO military clothing, reformatting and asserting the styles as a non seasonal collection under the RAEFOUND banner.  Debuting via the British Fashion Industry online platform, Raeburn has offered a creative glimpse of pieces that reflect a changing world..."

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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/06/christoper-raeburn-spring-summer-2021.html  

Spring 2023 review soon...