European And American Fashion Week: An Heir'S Duel

Born in 1971, Nicolas Ghesqui re and Stella McCartney; Raf Simons and Hedi Slimane born in 1968; plus Phoebe Philo born in 1973, these are on the edge of 40 years old.

The pformation from the new generation to the leading soldier has been completed.

In their new season's answer in 2013, they not only showed mature design skills, but more importantly, confident and clear personal style was clearly enough to build a new dynasty for the old city of Paris.

This season of Paris reminds me of the great work of George R.R. Martin, and the contemporary drama "the song of ice and fire".

In the book, after the king's death, the heirs of various races waited for the Central Plains to fight for the symbolic power and the eternal Iron Throne.

Although there is no bloody bloody duel in the novel, the Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent two old fashion house's "easy to host" debut before the arrival of September has already brought a higher and higher gunpowder smell to Paris.

History seems to have laid a good foundation for the steady Belgian and emotional Frenchmen.

As early as 2004, Cathy Horyn, a fashion writer from New York magazine, wrote in an article: "without the innovation of Raf Simons's thin suit tailoring and street modeling, there will be no success of Hedi Slimane, just like Helmut Lang will not have Raf Simons."

At that time, Hedi Slimane was at Dior Homme, just like Japan Zhongtian.

What is not known is that, before Hedi Slimane had come to prominence long ago, his first Bole was Mr. Yves Saint Laurent himself, who became the design director of YSL Rive Gauche in 1997.

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They were also given high hopes. At the same age, after countless coincidences, Raf Simons and Hedi Slimane could not escape in the frontal confrontation.

Suzy Menkes, an authoritative commentator in a famous foreign magazine, wrote in her column that the prelude of an era is always unveiled by the Titanic collision.

Just like the gorgeous Elsa Schiaparelli and the clean and simple Coco Chanel, the beautiful Christian Dior and the sculptured Hale Balenciaga, the perceptual fine Azzedine Alaia and the rational cold Rei Kawakubo...

The first round of elegant minimalism and cold and thin aesthetics is not accompanied by extreme controversy. However, a series of success and failure is far from being conclusive for an era.

In addition to Raf Simons and Hedi Slimane, there are also Nicolas Ghesqui re, Phoebe Philo, Clare Waight Waight, and even younger young people and the "heirs" who shoulder the survival mission of the old fashions. In this season, they have shown their ambitions without exception, trying to use new ones in this field.

Win a place.

Of course, this is just another beginning. The struggle for "iron throne" will never cease. Compared with the winning or losing of a season, the audience will always be more concerned about who has the ability to become the last surviving star.