25/08/2026
Pitti Archivio - Raf Simons 2016 Pitti Uomo
Held at the Stazione Leopolda Raf Simons Official presented his 2017 Spring Summer men’s collection on June 16th 2016.
A long time collaborator with Pitti Immagine having curated several special exhibitions (The Fourth S*x 2003, Raf Simons:Redux 2005) and published The Fourth S*x book with Pitti Immagine in 2003, Raf Simons returned for “Florence Calling: Raf Simons”
The collection featured prints curated from the estate of New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Mapplethorpe was a member of the countercultural artists and figures of 70s and 80s New York and took portraits of some of the revolutionaries of the cities avant-garde.
As an artist purely inspired by subcultures and counterculture movements of the past, Raf Simons used the selected images as prints across the collection.
Scroll the carousel to find out some of the faces who featured.