Maison Margiela Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear
For fashion lovers who pay attention to the trend of the fashion circle, remake is not a new thing, and the "deconstruction" style with many fans belongs to the category of "remake": Rei Kawakubo (Rei Kawakubo) flexibly uses the "grunge" technique that British punks are good at, using the concept of decomposition to smash, superimpose, and reorganize clothing, and then create a loose, three-dimensional, fragmented, asymmetrical, wrapped Japanese deconstruction style; Maison Margiela made a vest from the fabric of the outer layer of the mannequin model, the unhemmed thread and seam pleats are directly exposed, the original "stockman" and "semicouture" words are retained on the fabric, and even the auxiliary lines left on the fabric during the pattern are not erased... All of this can be regarded as the notes of fashion masters on remake.
Focusing on the current fashion circle, traces of REMAKE can be found everywhere. Previously, Virgil Abloh, creative director of Louis Vuitton menswear, who is the "popular fried chicken", asserted in an interview: "Streetwear is dying, and in the future people will express their personal style through one set of Archives (products of the brand's past)." This may have been his foreshadowing to predict the rise of the remake trend. And Virgil Abloh himself was a pioneer in bringing the concept of remake back into the public eye. When he first entered the fashion circle, he was to carry out a lot of creative transformation of many bankrupt clothing, shoes and bags on the basis of the original, so as to let more fresh creative angles enter the public's vision, which not only got the recognition of many people and accumulated a large number of fans, but also cooperated with Nike on the "THE TEN" series (deconstructed, transformed, and reorganized based on Nike's original shoes), promoting the development of sneaker co-branding culture.
Recycled belt dress Balenciaga Fall 2022 Couture
Coincidentally, many popular brands are exploring how to reuse old clothes. Marine Serre's team recycles a large amount of old clothing and fabric materials to make about 50% of the runway collection, each of which is unique due to the uniqueness of the raw material, which means that consumers who buy the collection will never experience a collision;
Deconstructivist designer John Gallino proposed the concept of so-called "Recicla" (a combination of the words "Recycle" and "Replica") in Maison Margiela's Fall/Winter 2020 collection, based on founder Maison Margiela's 1994 "Replica" collection, which involved finding vintage clothes and making identical replicas. Then select various items from the charity shop and design and process them into the new "Recicla" series; Vetements' design team at its peak in 2017~19 just founded Prototypes, which is currently very niche, but was introduced by global boutiques, adidas remake, tie dresses, raw jeans and other items, showing the pioneer of sustainable fashion, the new SS23 series is more like an anti-fashion continuation of the early Vetements... It is not difficult to find that remake, or as it is popularly said, second-hand processing and recreation, may be labeled in various ways in the past, in the gray area, and in the current fashion circle, it ushered in its own highlight moment, turning into the "back wave" of the trend.
“Recicla”概念from Maison Margiela Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear
The stylists of many trendy stars also often use remake techniques to transform existing ready-to-wear to make them more in line with the personal image of the star, amplify their body advantages, and create a strong dress style, but you don't feel that these remake items are anything contrary to wearing on them. Speaking of which, we have to mention that K-POP represents the stylist behind the girl group BLACKPINK, whether it is the dresses of Chanel and Alexander McQueen, or the pants of United Standard and Marine Serre, there is no stylist that cannot be transformed.
cut the dress into a two-piece set of "top" + "skirt"; Transforming pants or longer tops into bra-tops are common styling techniques for stylists. As a result, the girls of BLACKPINK exposed their waist lines and lengthened the proportions of their legs, creating a hot and sweet "Girl Crush" style, which became the style idol in the minds of young people in one fell swoop. And for the masses, the easier way to remake is to revive the T-shirt. Alexander Wang has demonstrated several T-shirt remake methods in Instagram live, a few scissors down, a few knots, an ordinary T-shirt transformed into Alexander Wang's new product.
Looking at the current state of the fashion industry, it is difficult not to feel anxious, with an oversupply of fashion products in every corner of the planet. What's more serious is that consumers' aesthetic changes to fashion trends are getting faster and faster, and a single item may be bored after a short time from its birth, followed by unimaginable retention and waste. But fortunately, we still have a way to save ourselves, and the remake trend is one of the paths, whether it's sneakers, washed T-shirts, jeans, or lifestyle objects that have nothing to do with dressing, as long as you are willing to do it, everyone has the potential to become an artist in the way they dress and create a very personal style.
Tie bag Prototypes Series 02
At present, this sustainable and creative and unique fashion method is gradually gaining more attention from young people, and even coincides with their desire to interpret their charm with unique dress, and has a trend that may develop into the mainstream of the street. This is undoubtedly exciting news and a little revelation: creativity is the lifeblood of the fashion industry, and brands should give it a cycle of birth, not an endless squeeze; At the same time, self-discipline is the obligation that every consumer should fulfill, only rich creativity and reasonable material desires can weaken our nature of liking the new and disgusting the old, and let the journey of style go further.