/fa/ - Fashion

>>9366993
what is all this FUCKING semantics, everything he did prior to his shift in production circa 09-10 was in belgium. the only exception being some of the cotton basics in the early to mid 00s were made in romania, and not very many of those were.

raf was a NOBODY, a SMALL TIME, INDIE boy until the jil gig.

your argument, whether you draw an invisible line at 'early 2000' was that his 90s and 00 fabrics were simple, which is false.

in terms of sheer textile and production quality, little compares with his 90's work, the suiting and tailoring - which was the foundation of his 90's collections - was of a very high standard, his patterns were cut inhouse, the suiting was mostly canvas.

there wasnt a lot of retail pieces in his 90's work other than suitwear and tailoring - that doesnt mean the pieces that werent suitwear were low quality, its the total opposite in fact. the knits that were wool were high quality, shetland or virgin 100% wool. this sweater from 98 is a wool/cotton/mohair blend with SILK blend detailing and is beyond anything hes done in 7+ years.

the basics that were cotton were all cotton jersey, better than any of his contemporary cotton made in portugal shit.

after his 00 hiatus his tailoring quality declined, he started using fused lining and other shortcuts in his suitwear, the pattern were still the raf style but the production wasnt as good as the 90's era suiting.

HOWEVER his conceptual scope expanded, unlike before knits, jeans, sweats, jackets, leathers were designed and produced for retail - these were of a much higher standard than today as well.

so it goes like this you know nothing RETARD:

rafs 90's era collection focused predominantly on suitwear and tailoring, with SOME exceptions, and although there werent a lot of knits or sweaters, the ones that made were of high quality like the suiting.

after his hiatus his suiting declined, everything else increased in quality until 09 when it all went shit.