This week, clothier Gabriela Hearst debuted her newest ready-to-wear fall 2025 line on the Palais de Tokyo in Paris as a part of the town’s trend week. These within the crowd might have seen some acquainted faces—specifically, artist Rashid Johnson—among the models.
This collaboration between art and fashion is hardly new, although it’s not typically that up to date artists stroll the runway themselves. For the present’s eleventh look, Johnson wore a black turtleneck, wide-legged black trousers fitted with a belt, and a knee-length darkish brown coat.
In his artwork observe, Johnson is understood for his sharp meditations on race and sophistication rooted in a extra natural vocabulary steeped in sculptural and painterly traditions. His work, which would be the topic of a much-anticipated mid-career survey on the Guggenheim Museum subsequent month, has introduced collectively a spread of supplies together with vegetation, scaffolding, cleaning soap, shea butter, paint, and mirror and ceramic fragments.
“I like to inform tales,” Johnson informed ARTnews in a 2018 interview. “I’m occupied with the way in which supplies have an effect on portray, and the way it’s learn, its legibility.”
Uruguayan American males’s and womenswear clothier Gabriela Hearst launched her sustainable, eponymous label in 2015. She beforehand helmed Chloé as inventive director from 2020 by way of 2023, however left to concentrate on her personal model.
Her newest ready-to-wear assortment options tailor-made items created utilizing sustainable practices resembling utilizing deadstock materials and eliminating plastic use. Whereas it boasts extra eco-conscious dwelling, the newest clothes purpose to mix consolation and magnificence with a sense of timelessness. Along with Johnson on the runway, stars like Jessica Alba attended the Paris present.
