Raf Simons Fall Fashions

Fall is the season of full weight, and the fall collections of Raf Simons show the designer's signatures under autumn conditions: the menswear language of his own label, launched in 1995 — carried into his creative direction at Christian Dior and Calvin Klein, translated into heavier cloth, longer lines and layers built for weather. Where spring proves a signature can be lightened without being lost, fall proves it can carry weight — coats, knits and evening pieces all speaking the same language. This page files the fall strand of the record in this guide.

The Photos section gathers fall looks across the collections, and the search routes in the references run Raf Simons fall fashion news, photo and video searches. Pair this page with the spring fashions page for the silhouette at its lightest, and with the collections page for both seasons held together. The designer's official website is linked in the references.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not this designer's own garments.

The Fall Register

Every designer has a register in which the signatures sit most naturally, and for Raf Simons the fall register is defined by substance: black, white and seasonal color — the menswear register, deepened for the season, and construction that has to perform — a furniture designer's eye brought to clothing — structure, proportion and form considered the way a furniture designer considers them. Fall pieces are the wardrobe's working core, the clothes worn most days of the colder half of the year, and these collections treat that duty seriously: outerwear that finishes a look rather than covering it, knitwear and tailoring layered without bulk, and evening pieces that keep the signature legible under low light and heavy fabric alike.

Photographs of fall looks reward the same attention as the clothes themselves. A fall garment's quality lives in its weight and finish — how a seam sits under a coat's cloth, how a print survives being cut into a longer, layered silhouette. The imagery gathered here spans the fall collections across the years, so the strand can be read as a development: the signatures settled early, the handling refined season by season.

Fall on the Calendar

Fall collections arrive through the calendar the fashion week page in this series covers: presented in Paris, reviewed on the news page, photographed on the runway page, and filed here. The rhythm is worth understanding — the fall shows happen long before the autumn they dress, so the coverage a reader meets in the news belongs to a season still months away, and this filed page is where that coverage settles into the record once the clothes reach wardrobes.

Read with the profiles page, the fall strand also completes a biographical arc: Raf Simons is a Belgian fashion designer. Beginning in furniture design, he launched his own menswear label in 1995. In April 2012 he was announced as the creative director at Christian Dior. On October 22, 2015 he resigned from Christian Dior. On August 2, 2016, Simons was announced as the new chief creative officer at Calvin Klein. The fall collections are where that history meets the present tense of the wardrobe — the signatures a career built, doing the heaviest work of the fashion year.