Calvin Klein FW18: de-dramatization of chaos

When everything around you becomes suffocating, it makes you feel trapped and your breath freezes, so that the need to be reborn comes, to create an inner habitat that will free you, that realizes you.

The Calvin Klein brand, under the artistic direction of Raf Simons, presents its FW18 collection during the so-called New York Fashion Week. The industrial atmosphere recreated for the occasion, is downplayed by the popcorn-snowfall that covers the catwalk, together with clothes that seem to convey this sense of protection and the need to minimize the chaos that dominates our everyday life.

Among the presented garments dominate colored balaclava; they are matched by the trend of the 'lifejacket', with its reflective stripes revived on sweaters, furs and jackets. Does he want to fight the system? Maybe yes or maybe not. The fact remains that Simons has decided to mention the well-known 1995 film Safe, as inspiration, the story of an housewife (Julianne Moore) who, suddenly, falls ill with "the allergy of the twentieth century". She becomes intolerant to everything from exhaust gases to the air itself.

Calvin Klein raises the wool sweater, warm and comfort, the raincoats are silver and rigid, and, once again, the complete shirt-pants (as in the last SS18 collection), but in the winter version, in the colors and tissues.

This is Calvin Klein, this is the Raf Simons revolution.