Raf Simons didn’t always design clothes most of us could afford. In his wild youth he based shows on UFOs, Rubik’s Cubes, and Kraftwerk. Just months before September 11 he hosted a terrorism-themed show taking its title from a paraphrased Kerouac slogan: “Woe Unto Those Who Spit On The Fear Generation, For The Wind Will Blow It Back“ (check it out above). Other obsessions included Joy Division years before anyone had to put up with Interpol, and William S. Burroughs’ Interzone, long before Klaxons stuck a glowstick up our arses.
