With the opioid crisis in America, drugs seem to be an overriding topic of conversation among lawmakers and the public these days. And the fashion industry is no exception.
Raf Simons based his entire fall men’s collection on “Christiane F.,” a 1981 film that “depicts the realities of drug use and addiction,” according to his show notes. His line used a series of color-coded patches with letters that spoke to the “abbreviated names of narcotic substances: LSD, XTC, GHB and 2C-B.” In case the message was too obscure, a couple of deconstructed hoodies with “DRUGS” across the front in big, block letters drove home the point.
As the show notes for his Youth in Motion collection detailed: “Ultimately, ‘Youth In Motion’ seeks to neither glorify nor condone the culture(s) of drugs; rather Simons seeks instead to consider the persistent, almost ubiquitous presence of narcotics (prescribed or otherwise) within our society and acknowledge our often conflicted relationships with them.”
OK then.
But a couple of other brands had unplanned marijuana moments during their shows at New York Fashion Week: Men’s.
At the Death to Tennis show on Wednesday afternoon at Pier 59, a rapper named Smokepupp seated in the front row lit up a joint while
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