RUNWAY: Vetements SS17

Vetements' co-ed Spring/Summer 2017, strangely, opened Paris Haute Couture fashion week with a collection made up of collaborations. Shown on the main floor of the famed Parisian department store Galeries Lafeyettes, the SS17 proffered a never ending barrage of oversized, strappy and purposely ill-fitting designs, many co-branded with brands like Brioni, Levis and Reebok. It's a statement, for sure. Though it may seem hypocritical to create these clothes with labels from more affordable companies like Levis, having previously said 'my friends very often cannot afford the clothes' and yet here they are creating clothes that even the fashion cognoscenti deem to be expensive clothing. Or that could be the whole point. C'est la vie, as they say.