Thread by @MuireYurien

THREAD VETEMENTS

Vetements is a French clothing and footwear brand founded by Demna Gvasalia in 2014. The founder before creating Vetements made several years of experience working with top brands such as Louis Vuitton, Céline, Balenciaga and Maison Margiela.

1. New fall-winter ad campaign recalls Balenciaga fashion shows in bondage style. I was particularly struck by an outfit that looks so much like the one worn by Lady Gaga at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards and harks back to the frazzledrip.

3. Frazzledrip is a dark web snuff film showing HRC and longtime aide Huma Abedin sexually assaulting and killing a young girl, drinking her blood, and in turn wearing the skin of her face as a mask. The video was discovered on the laptop of former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

4. Back at Vetements, Demna Gvasalia and Gucci's Alessandro Michele, a brand accused a few days ago by a member of the Gucci family of promoting pedophilia have collaborated together in 2016, have been straightforwardly referred to as the Kanye West and Jay Z of fashion. (NYT)

5. His advertising campaigns are often controversial, one one of them features teenagers in their beds, sometimes in erotic positions with posters recalling their tastes, cartoons, comics or anime in sexy poses.

6. There could be no shortage of children or evocation, with bodily gestures, to sexual references. Why show a girl who seems to be wearing only a sweatshirt or a boy in a "I make boys cry" shirt posing sexily? it seems the focus is not the clothing but that he wants to show.

7. In 2016, Vetements entered popular culture with its PE16 collection that featured an array of outerwear, shirts, hoodies, and dresses, The design, however, was secondary to the collective's nuanced reimagining of pop culture moments and normcore brands such as Champion and DHL

8. Did you know that Larry Hillblom, the business genius behind DHL and one of the three founders of DHL, was a notorious serial pedophile. In the 1980s he decided to leave the United States to evade taxes and have child sex with girls from Micronesia and the Far East.

9. Why did Vetements promote in its clothing a brand, whose owner was accused of pedophilia?

10. Hillblom, The DHL tycoon, spent his time procuring girls for underage sex after stepping away from the day-to-day running of DHL, the company he co-founded and whose middle initial is derived from his last name.

11. Why feature a child on your Instagram page eating PASTA when everyone knows it's code for pedophiles?

instagram.com/p/CghHtRlD6wd/

12. They could not miss, in their parades religious references or symbols related to Satanism such as pentagrams, horns or allegorical masks like those of Venom.
#FashionGate

13. It is clear that there is a strong collective influence behind this brand in imposing a cultural, religious model that is not consonant with society.
#FashionGate

14. Some photos featured on Vetements' Instagram profile. I don't have to explain to you the meaning of teddy bears, specifically the panda.
* Note the girl's phone