Raf Simons will maintain a three-week sale of leftover inventory and uncommon archival clothes at Tokyo’s Dover Street Market Ginza, three years after the Belgian designer shut down his eponymous label.
The sale, which runs from Dec. 29 to Jan. 18 and can introduce new items every week, attracts on a myriad of merchandise chosen by Simons. The designer, who’s co-creative director of Prada with Miuccia Prada, might be onsite at the store on the primary day of the sale to signal items.
The sale additionally contains objects from the archive, similar to early invites just like the vinyl-record-shaped invite for the 1997 Black Palms present in Paris, and a field containing VHS tapes of the primary 9 Raf Simons exhibits. There will even be images, posters and books spanning the model’s virtually three-decade run.
Founded in Belgium in 1995, the Raf Simons model would finally propel Simons to trend trade prominence and assist him land prime jobs at Jil Sander, Dior and Calvin Klein. Despite remaining comparatively small, the label wielded outsized affect by means of its groundbreaking menswear, recognized for serving to to popularise the thin silhouette and for its give attention to youth tradition. In late 2022, Simons introduced that the model’s Spring/Summer 2023 assortment can be its final.
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