Raf Simons contribute to A magazine #3 by Haider Ackermann

The always poetic and mysterious mind of Raf Simons offers up a formidable slew of historical and social references in his personal exploration of masculinity and youth culture through fashion design. For his contribution to A#3 for Haider Ackermann he gives no less, with this simple yet powerful photographic and literary piece.

Simons takes ‘Siddhartha’, the canonical novel by German writer Hermann Hesse, and graphically reinterprets it amongst other Hesse references, for powerful effect. The words “UNBROKEN SIDDHARTHA RETURNED” are granted prime position across a full page each, and allude to the spiritual journey of the novel’s protagonist Siddhartha, his search for an enlightened state and his discovery of an eternal cycle of life.