EXCERPT: Christopher Raeburn. SPRING 2023 - COPENHAGEN FASHION WEEK.
"...This is Raeburn's first runway show since 2019, skipping the pandemic, like everyone else, while resorting only to a lookbooks for his RAEMADE collection, which utilized the U.K. army's Disruptive Pattern Material (DPM) ala desert camouflage design, pieced together by the indispensable waterproof material Gortex. Raeburn was able to meld an outwear look onto a military-esque urban aesthetic, akin to 1990's street wear styles. Although the styles from the RAEMADE lookbook were limited in scale, Raeburn's Spring 2023 collection has returned to its more stylized and extensive forms, in representing of his sustainable looks. As one of the finalists for the Zalando Sustainability Award, Raeburn was able to show his latest collection at Copenhagen Fashion Week rather than his usual London Fashion Week shows. Extensively utilizing parachute fabrics as the themed material for the show and so was his abstraction of the various graphic prints, in homage to one of the most beautifully stark military planes ever created, the now retired Blackbird. Raeburn's latest array is less deconstructured than previous collections..."
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