Do you want underwear with a past? Then you’ll have to keep looking, the tattered, yellowed examples from designer Willy Chavarria are brand new.
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Published18. September 2023, 10:44
Stains and holes: When the fashion blog zooms in, the comments are overwhelming
The ancient underwear that you only wear at home can be brought out again: the disgusting specimens make it onto the catwalk at Fashion Week in New York.
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The hottest fashion statement of the coming season? If you believe designer Willy Chavarria and his label of the same name, it’s stained, discolored underwear, holes included. He presented such models a few days ago at the current New York Fashion Week and basically sent his models onto the catwalk without their clothes on.
The gray underpants for the XL coat already come with holes.
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Stars in underwear are part of everyday life
At first it’s not even noticeable. After all, the briefs have recently been considered the new pants – beauty entrepreneur Kylie Jenner presented them in combination with dark tights, and a little later “The Crown” star Emma Corrin made the item an eye-catcher at the Venice Film Festival. A pair of underpants more or less doesn’t cause an outcry in the fashion scene.
Emma Corrin in underwear look at the Venice Film Festival.
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Disgust Zoom
However, when the fashion blog “Diet Prada” zooms in closer, the comments become overwhelming. The underwear collection is brand new at Willy Chavarria and will only be available for purchase in spring 2024. No problem, because the holes, sweat marks and yellow spots on the parts that work for men and women are already there. The situation is similar with the undershirts: they are already delivered yellowed and as if they had been eaten by moths.
Why all this? “When it comes to underwear, it’s like the point in life we’re at right now: everything is shitty and we don’t feel particularly good,” explains Chavarria in an interview with Office Magazine. “When we show ourselves in these tattered underwear, it also shows our vulnerability.”
The undershirts in the new collection also come with holes and stains.
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Poverty as a trend?
The followers of “Diet Prada” see it differently. The comments fluctuate between sheer horror and criticism: “Rich people love to play poor,” “Making poverty a trend is shameful,” and “some men already live in these parts, no one needs that,” reads with enthusiasm you search in vain. Instead, some are drawing a comparison to the cult comedy “Zoolander,” in which the evil fashion designer cites homelessness as inspiration for his next collection.
Willy Chavarria is still keeping to himself how much the pieces will cost. Prices on the website range from around 18 francs for a pair of socks to around 670 francs for a jacket – the underwear collection is expected to fall somewhere in between.
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