{"id":27129,"date":"2018-02-06T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/06\/i-dont-think-elegance-is-relevant-vetements-demna-gvasalia-the-worlds-hottest-designer\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:00:10","slug":"i-dont-think-elegance-is-relevant-vetements-demna-gvasalia-the-worlds-hottest-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27129","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t think elegance is relevant\u2019: Vetements\u2019 Demna Gvasalia, the world\u2019s hottest designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 36-year-old Georgian is bored of fashion as fantasy and has eschewed the tropes of Parisian glamour for flea market catwalks, crumpled styling and haute couture hoodies. Where can he go next?To understand what makes&nbsp;Demna&nbsp;Gvasalia the hottest designer in Paris right now, you first need to forget everything you think you know about Paris. Forget Catherine Deneuve, forget Jane Birkin, forget Fran\u00e7oise Hardy. Forget trenchcoats, silk blouses, ballet pumps and straw baskets. Forget Am\u00e9lie in Montmartre and Carrie Bradshaw in Ladur\u00e9e.The Paris of Gvasalia, designer of Vetements and Balenciaga, is not that Paris. Instead, it is the Paris you might recognise if you were gripped by the latest series of gritty French police drama Spiral. It is the city we glimpse through the eyes of Louise, the nanny in Le\u00efla Slimani\u2019s novel Lullaby, when she makes the after-work journey from her employers\u2019 chic 10th arrondissement home to her down-at-heel neighbourhood. It is a city of phone shops and fast food, a city where glamour means tight jeans and fake handbags, a city where background noise is a different language on every street corner, not a harmonious \u00c9dith&nbsp;Piaf&nbsp;soundtrack. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2018\/feb\/06\/i-dont-think-elegance-is-relevant-vetements-demna-gvasalia-the-worlds-hottest-designer\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018I don\u2019t think elegance is relevant\u2019: Vetements\u2019 Demna Gvasalia, the world\u2019s hottest designer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36-year-old Georgian is bored of fashion as fantasy and has eschewed the tropes of Parisian glamour for flea market catwalks, crumpled styling and haute couture hoodies. Where can he go next?To understand what makes&nbsp;Demna&nbsp;Gvasalia the hottest designer in Paris right now, you first need to forget everything you think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}