With archival designer clothing commanding staggeringly high prices on the secondary market, predicting which brands will pop off next isn’t easy.
With archival designer clothing commanding staggeringly high prices on the secondary market, predicting which brands will pop off next isn't easy.For a not-so-brief period in 2017, Kanye West memorably wore a camo Raf Simons bomber from the Belgian designer's 2001 "Riot Riot Riot" collection for several weeks straight. Shortly after, a version of the jacket sold for nearly $50K on Grailed.
Secondly, Schlossman notes, for a lot of archive enthusiasts today, there's no better way to differentiate themselves from the rest of the fashion flock than to buy a piece that's no longer in production, effectively ensuring they'll be one of a rarified few wearing it. Saving up to spend well over a G on, say, a Raf Simons sweatshirt from his seminal 2002 "Virginia Creeper" collection appeals to the type of person who wants to stand out from the pack.
No conversation on the current state of archival men's clothing would be complete without input from David Casavant. It was Casavant who initially lent the Raf Simons bomber to West in 2017, kicking off a craze on the secondary market for the designer's pieces that's yet to fully abate. Casavant's extensive collection of archival clothing is legendary, and he's widely credited with popularizing the earlier work of not only Simons, but Slimane and Helmut Lang, too.
It's funny to think of fashion fanatics buying up the likes of Fear of God in bulk 10, 20 years from now, firing off reviews on how ahead of its time the line was and how relevant the silhouettes still seem. But it doesn't feel entirely improbable that, say, Virgil Abloh's early designs for Louis Vuitton might experience a resurgence in demand in a decade or two, long after they were first sent down the runway.
Casavant is inclined to agree. He's not sure that in the off-chance any streetwear stalwart of today is somehow rediscovered and revived back into popularity — it'll be one we saw coming. Most brands that are currently popular, Casavant forecasts darkly, will likely go the way of Ed Hardy, and wearing the brand in a decade or so would call for the same sort of sardonic irony involved in rocking an Ed Hardy hat today .
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