THESHADOWCREEPS: Chronos in the crux

I felt this great wave of intimacy caused by Raf Simons’ latest collection. I guess it was some sort of magic influence over the fact of being young. Youth is a part of “reality” in which we encounter the fact of mortality; (a topic which makes all of us uncertain about who we are and why are we in this world for), at the same time, youth makes us feel immortal and infinite (at least for a couple of decades.) I have always found fascinating how people hold on to their youth and how most individuals avoid losing every sign of it. I love what youth means universally and what a symbol of freedom it is to humankind.

Raf Simons has always been for me a very good medium of destroying the boundaries of genre and age between individuals. His proposals of men are so basic in concept nevertheless so intricate in representation. A Raf Simons’ man evolves constantly, representing his surroundings through small symbolic statements. In this collection I found youth being the core of every single look. I found that this time it was not about men whatsoever. It was definitely about boys, about sensibility and vulnerability.

I have always found the Peter Pan syndrome a form of tagging and rejecting the actual mindset of society. People want to be young, youth makes people free. Youth is immortality, and inside the human ego and also in human nature, we all want to be remembered, we all want to be part of history, just frozen in a timeline. Maybe because of all things metaphysical, it might possibly be the only certain thing we can hold on to for making our life “worth living”. The representation of youth threw stereotypes is off course the least we can see in this collection. The different phases of youth shown in this presentation are the most unexpected and fundamental things about it: freedom, surprise and discovery. Yes. I can assure you those are the symbols I perceive in every velvety coat and every pair of the -ugliest-but-coolest sneakers I saw through all F/W 2012.

It meant the world to me relating this collection to a lot of things I believe so dearly. It made me feel by somehow unique. Nevertheless, when I realized that I am not the only one in a world moving constantly and that we all want now to be forever, I got this wave of comfort and pure peace of mind. Being alive represents an infinity of things we are not even aware of. Since every day we are passersby, in the street, in someone’s life, in a dream, in a minute; I guess we can live to the “fullest” when we communicate and reconsider our views of life. Youth is forever when discovery is constant and when our hearts stop by every fact we encounter and by every mystery we unfurl.

At least for this lifetime, let us all be boys.