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Independent brand Simon Cracker denounces luxury fashion system with upcycled parodies

  • The independent Italian fashion brand Simon Cracker criticized the luxury fashion system with an upcycled collection at Milan Fashion Week, highlighting a loss of quality and creativity.
  • The collection featured parodies of luxury items, including a humorous take on Hermes' Birken Bag, as co-creative director Filippo Biraghi expressed concerns about people's disinterest in fashion.
  • A study by McKinsey Consultancy noted a significant slowdown in the luxury sector, forecasting a 2% contraction for 2025, marking the first decline since the Great Recession.
  • Italian singer Chiara Galiazzo praised Simon Cracker for its authenticity, stating, 'I feel like I am part of a community,' after attending the show.
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Milan Fashion Week: Simon Cracker showcases upcycled collection as luxury sector slumps

The independent Italian fashion brand Simon Cracker denounced the luxury fashion system with an upcycled collection previewed during Milan Fashion Week on Sunday that riffed on what they see as bygone days of quality and creativity. The coed looks created from recovered and deadstock garments, materials and accessories included a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Hermes’ highly prized Birkin bag, with the designers drawing the telltale hardware on leathe…

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Independent brand Simon Cracker denounces luxury fashion system with upcycled parodies

The independent Italian fashion brand Simon Cracker denounced the luxury fashion system with an upcycled collection previewed during Milan Fashion Week.

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MFWM AW25: Simon Cracker - The Glass Magazine

Filippo Biraghi and Simone Botte made their reputation years ago with a shrunken, upcycled look. Today, they question the fashion system’s perfunctory acts of progress through thought-provoking collections. Simon Cracker’s Filippo Biraghi and Simone Botte are soldiers. Their AW25 show, in much as could be discerned, was about the struggle to survive the system’s downturns.

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