FASHION

Raf Simons’s Fall 2018 Menswear Show Was a Drug-Themed Bacchanalia Full of Obscure References

by Brooke Marine

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Raf Simons should be crowned as New York Fashion Week’s king of obscure, scandalous references. At his Fall 2018 menswear show, the designer transformed the cover of an out-of-print play by the late Cookie Mueller and Glenn O’Brien called Drugs into a wearable sleeveless hoodie-poncho hybrid with the title brazenly displayed across the chest, fastened patches to scarves, sleeves and pants legs with nods to psychedelic substances like LSD and 2C-B, and screen printed shirts that reference the tale of Christiane F., a 1981 film about a teen drawn to the heroin fueled scene of 1970s Berlin. The spectacle was completed with a spread of wine bottles, charcuterie, bread, flowers and waffles (all of which was edible, except for the flowers, of course) on the stage. Get a closer look here.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.

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On the runway at the Raf Simons FW18 show during New York Fashion Week Men’s on Wednesday, February 7th in New York City. Photo by Simbarashe Cha for W Magazine.