Scarves of the followers of football teams are desvinculan of culture 'hooligan' and infiltrate trends for the fall of the hands of vetements or and / project.
The reapropiación of garments sports by the Gateway follows untouched roof. first were the sports baseball caps and even the tracksuit, denostado until the popes style decided dignificarlo and turn it on trend. this fall reaches the turn of the scarves football teams, which have been infiltrated accessory basic for the closet male this fall. the modest accessory acrylic for forofos that are identified with a club has appeared reinvented as product luxury with the same codes graphics, colors garish and size something oversized.
Fashion arises, as usual for some years, the former Soviet bloc. The Russian Gosha Rubchinskiy, one of the names that set the pace of current fashion, has put several scarves with inscriptions in Cyrillic in his latest collection, a collaboration with Adidas for the 2018 World Cup. And Vetements, the almighty collective led by Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia, also at the helm of Balenciaga since last year, introduced them a couple of seasons ago darning in them a self-referential inscription ("soccer scarf" in Russian). This autumn, Vetements has also signed a capsule collection for Reebok in which appears an updated version of the model, this time coated red and yellow deemojis. Its price is around 500 euros.
The French brand APC has also introduced a football resonance scarf in its collection this fall, as well as Commune de Paris, which reinterprets it in an oversized version and not exempt from political subtext. "Our epoch calls for the reappropriation of popular movements. We refuse to give up the tricolor flag to the nationalists, just as we do not want to leave the flag to the ultras ", explained his designer, Sébastien Lyky, to Le Monde.
A lesser-known name, Frank Strachan, graduated from the prestigious design school Central Saint Martins and former stylist of Kylie Minogue or Britney Spears. The designer also aspires to unlink this scarf from the hooligan culture. "I did not support any team, so I felt fake wearing a scarf from a team that I did not identify with", Strachan justifies, who has preferred to stamp it with insults uttered against gays and lesbians to denounce the persistence of homophobia in our society. For his part, Edward Buchanan, designer of the Milanese firm Sansovino 6, proposes knitted scarves that change the names of the clubs by slogans such as "Wake yo for liberty" or "We all are migrants".
The most exclusive version is provided by Stella McCartney, who has a scarf in a mixture of wool and cotton in collection for last season, clearly inspired by the soccer variant of the garment. The most unexpected comes from Y / Project, the rising brand of flamenco Glenn Martens, which proposes a female version of the garment illustrated with portraits of historical couples such as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette or Napoleon Bonaparte and Josefina de Beauharnais. It can be knotted in the neck or look like an Islamic shayla.
Hybrid shirts
Uniform footballing not only has entered the cabinets, but also in centers arte.nous sommes foot (US soccer), an exhibition newly opened in the mucem, Museum of civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean in Marseille, pose during this fall closer anthropological this sport. Sample also stops in clothing players taken after by fans and, more recently, by the way public fashionist.
For example, picks up the work of the designer Dutch floor wesseling, which confecciona hybrid between tees equipment different using the rules of heraldry. some merge the colors of clubs rivals, as Milan and Inter. Other mix the colors of teams who are sharing acronym, such as f.c. Barcelona and f.c. Basel. The model Falkland alternating uniform Argentina in England, as if pursue a reconciliation between both. "imagery football is a visual language internawesselin. These shirts symbolize banners, crowns and passports tomorrow", says wesseling.
