Hi I don't have any question but just want to say thanks for doing these. They're precious.

Aw thank you so much <3

Hey! I am a 19 year old fashion student from a small village near Berlin and Im really curious what kind of motivation drove you to start this blog (and still continue it , which is really impressing btw!). As you can tell by my age I just started studying and my task right now is to make my first own collection and this blog helps A TON to gether usefull information etc, Thanks! Also Im curious what you are up to after all those years. Would be amazing to hear back from you. best regards ssuppe

Hey there! Great to hear from you! I love when people reach to me. It was my passion to collect pictures from shows and magazines (only on internet, on real tho). Once I started I wanted to get them all an I was always curious about getting to those that are not that known. So I started digging. I was not lazy to spend hours o researching and discovering. And since I had all the materials I simply wanted to share them. I always wanted a place where I could find ALL Raf's collections in one place (mainly the ones before 2005). I did the same with King of Couture blog which was about Dior (in particular during Raf's tenure) and Helmut Lang Archive. I did these because I was drawn into the world of the creators. I am now 26, I started in 2015 so I was 21. Not it is kinda dead. Not because I would not love Raf anymore but simply because I need to focus on my studies - I study Fashion Design in Prague and I want to create fashion. My focus is knitting. I also worked at Vogue Czechoslovakia for a bit and now I am developing knitwear section of one Czech brand. I wish I could continue my blog, but it was very very time consuming and I don't have that time now. I think there is enough there for now. And I update my Spotify playlist whenever possible. Thank you once again for your message and best of luck with your studies!!! Best, Mikulas

Still updated playlist of Raf's soundtracks for his shows (Raf Simons, Jil Sander, Dior and Calvin Klein)... 13h 42min...

Raf Simons | AW 2000-01 | Confusion

Raf Simons | AW 1999-00 | Disorder-Incubation-Isolation

Raf Simons | SS 1998 | Black Palms

Raf Simons | SS 1997 | How to talk to your teen

playlist of many songs used as soundtrack for Raf Simons, Jil Sander, Dior and Calvin Klein...

Raf Simons | SS 2004 | May the circle be unbroken

Raf Simons | AW 1999-00 | Disorder-Incubation-Isolation

Raf Simons | SS 2005 | History of the world

Raf Simons | SS 2005 | History of the world

26 Gasoline Stations Andrei Markov (chain) ‘One Hundred Years’ The Dymaxion House Giordano Bruno The Lightning Field Mr. Sir ‘A Short Term Effect’ Alan Turing (machine) ‘Neon Lights’ (1978) ‘Island of Never Anger’ Edgard Varèse Rachel Carson Victory over the Sun Taliesin West (1954) Small White Pebble Circles Carbonated Soft Drinks Model N°670, 1956 Rosa Parks Viking I, Viking II Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois Supremus N°58 Nikola Tesla (coil) ‘The Hanging Garden’ International Mobile ‘Sparrowfall’ The Hall of Everlasting Life Valentina Tereshkova Richard Prince Water Supply & Distribution A Promise Ring Puberty Swimming Lakes Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (jet) St. Louis Gateway Arch Drinking Straw Red Petals Niels Bohr (atoms for peace) ‘Magnetic North’ Fallingwater Remote Control ‘Events In Dense Fog’ Ralf Hütter Kilimanjaro (19,335.6) Laughter And Forgetting Carl David Runge (helium) Sign Language ‘Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960’ ‘Slowdive’ Robert Jarvik (7) Grey-scale Ultrasound Greeting Cards Terrestrial Radar Jonas Salk (strong children) Monument To The Last Horse Tin And Copper The Texas Pieces Louis, Mary & Richard Leakey (skull) Ghost Telephone Alpine Architecture Rudolf Schwarzkogler After Ford (Huxley) Things That Are Near Rouen Cathedral, Morning White-haired Girls Sojourner M.L. (the freezing of mercury) Floating Tetrahedral City Monogram ‘55 JBJ Fourier (chaleur) ‘Tiny Golden Books’ To Be Close

“History of the World”, a poem by Peter De Potter, 2004. Six stanzas were selected by Raf Simons for prints Spring-Summer 2005.

Raf Simons | SS 2005 | History of the world

Raf Simons by Antonio Macarro, July/Aug 2005, Neo2

Raf Simons | SS 2005 | History of the world

Raf Simons Spring-Summer 2005 Moto Sneakers

10 years after his debut into fashion, Raf Simons designed his first pairs of sneakers, for the “History Of The World” collection ; including the, now famous, velcro high tops.

The universe displayed for SS05 marked a break from the previous ones, offering a minimalist aesthetic blended with futuristic & utopian inspiration. 

Clean lines, velcro straps, monochromatic : everything leading to this “astronaut” look.

Raf Simons | SS 2005 | History of the world

Raf Simons | SS 2005 | History of the world

“View on Colour”

Jermaine Joy by David Armstrong for i-D Magazine No. 251, February 2005

Raf Simons | SS 2005 | History of the world

“Bonus Beats”

Greg by Alasdair McLellan for i-D Magazine No. 251, February 2005