{"id":66848,"date":"2018-06-21T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=66848"},"modified":"2018-07-24T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:01:35","slug":"walter-van-beirendonck-ss19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/walter-van-beirendonck-ss19\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Van Beirendonck&#8217;s spring collection is Moonrise Kingdom meets Theatre of the Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/276237473\" width=\"1500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waltervanbeirendonck.com\/\">Walter Van Beirendonck<\/a> returned last night with a collection as ingenious, disconcerting and downright outrageous as we\u2019ve come to expect from the <em>enfant terrible<\/em> of Belgian fashion. Luminous cut-outs, gentile duck patterns, Prince of Wales check and skeletal masks were just some of the unexpected threads running throughout his off-kilter SS19 collection \u2014 captured exclusively for SLEEK by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laureatanasyan.com\/\">Laure Atanasyan<\/a>. The scene was set with the opening ensemble: a fluorescent yellow two-piece \u2014 itself a fetishistic reimagining of a construction worker\u2019s garb \u2014 complete with cartoonish clogs and boy scout patches bearing words and slogans, such as \u201cRiot\u201d, &#8220;Trans Human&#8221;, and the collection&#8217;s title, \u201cWild is the Wind\u201d. Needless to say, wild it certainly was. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou&#8217;re spring to me\u201d, sings Nina Simone in the achingly-romantic title track (versions by David Bowie and George Michael soundtracked the show also). The tender nature of the music might have been incongrous alongside Van Beirendonck&#8217;s brash and outr\u00e9 outfits it it weren\u2019t for the sensitivity and care that he injects his designs with. Employing the motif of the skeleton throughout, he cut away at garments to fashion ribcages out of fabrics in zingy shades \u2014 playfully mirrored in the actual skeletal suits that popped up mid-way through. Meanwhile, the out-in-the-wild, boy scout theme was continued with sporadic feathers, patchwork prints, rigid materials, and baseball caps cheekily bedecked with peace sign fingers. It was a sartorial spectacle best-termed\u00a0<em>Moonrise Kingdom<\/em> meets the theatre of the absurd.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On first glance, Van Beirendonck&#8217;s latest collection might be construed as an innocuous and good humoured exercise in bright colour and deconstructed form. But, there\u2019s more going on here than what might have initially been perceived. In one look, Van Beirendonck attaches a miniature placard reading, &#8220;Hell to the Liars&#8221;, to a cut-away waistcoat \u2014 a nod perhaps to our current climate of fake news and deceptive politics in the age of Trump. If it\u2019s not exactly clear what cohesive statement Van Beirendock is trying to make with &#8220;Wild is the Wind&#8221;, it certainly isn\u2019t one that gives itself up to easy definition. In another ensemble<\/span>, he pairs a transparent would-be hoodie emblazoned with green geese and alienoid cows with a lime green polo neck, sapphire satin trousers and superhero sunglasses \u2014 it doesn\u2019t make sense and it\u2019s not supposed to. In a world where almost everything is reduced to neat and easy description, Van Beirendonck is resisting the trend.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The enfant terrible of Belgian fashion unveils &#8220;Wild is the Wind&#8221; where boy scout references mingle with deconstructed forms. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[417,3395,10776,93,10777,10778,27,10750,1123,10779],"class_list":["post-66848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-david-bowie","tag-deconstruction","tag-laure-atanasyan","tag-menswear","tag-moonrise-kingdom","tag-nina-simone","tag-paris","tag-ss19","tag-walter-van-beirendonck","tag-wild-is-the-wind"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Walter Van Beirendonck&#039;s Spring Collection is &quot;Moonrise Kingdom&quot; meets Theatre of the Absurd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The bad boy of Belgian fashion unveils SS19 collection, &quot;Wild is the Wind&quot;, where boy scout references mingle with deconstructed forms.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/walter-van-beirendonck-ss19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walter Van Beirendonck&#039;s Spring Collection is &quot;Moonrise Kingdom&quot; meets Theatre of the Absurd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The bad boy of Belgian fashion unveils SS19 collection, &quot;Wild is the Wind&quot;, where boy scout references mingle with deconstructed forms.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/walter-van-beirendonck-ss19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-21T17:34:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-24T12:01:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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