RUNWAY: Raf Simons FW16

Raf Simons takes us back to school, or at least that's what his collegiate themed collection aimed to do. Oversized college sweaters, ripped, tattered and otherwise distressed, proliferated the collection and gave the idea that these young models were dressing up in their father's old college gear. Other than the aforementioned designs, the collection was considerably more wearable and commercial than Simons' last few. There was a lightness to this collection and that could be due to his lighter work load, no longer having to shuffle back and forth from Antwerp where his eponymous label is based and Paris, where Dior is. After all that time spent traveling and designing over ten collections a year, Simons can finally take some time and relax and reminisce, maybe about his university days where he studied architecture and how he got to where he is: as a purveyor of men's fashion and a (former) couturier.