“This one is for the 99%,” said Steven Raj Bhaskaran. “It’s taking the source of power from last season and giving it to the people that we want to empower.” Last season was staged in a Parisian former stock exchange and titled The 1%: it contained plenty of satirical swipes at the have-yachts, VVIC, HNWI elite that much of luxury fashion dedicates itself to chasing. This season twisted that formula inside out to transport us from plutocracy to pluralism.
This entire Vogue piece is honestly very interesting, including this interesting tidbit:
“Look 77’s tulle-trained gown was modeled by Monique-Antoine Orosemane, aka Mounia, the Martinican model and Yves Saint Laurent muse whose 1978 breakthrough made her one of the defining Black figures of Paris haute couture.”
Definitely click over there and read it, once you take it all in here.
