“Consumed” was the culmination of a two-year treatise which began with AW2001’s "Riot Riot Riot,” and continued through SS2002 “Woe Onto Those Who Spit on the Fear Generation…” and AW2002 “Virginia Creeper.” Over the course of these collections, Raf abandoned his mediations on the upper class in favor of working class angst. Where Raf once employed the visuals of bygone rockstars like a secret handshake, borrowing images of Peter Murphy, Kraftwerk, and such, he instead cobbled mass-media imagery such as Playstation and Jaws into a grim hypothesis about where such monoculture was shepherding society. Consumed visualized the future as a dystopian cityscape in which brands became one’s identity. The clothes were covered with directionless collages of logos, while atop them models added Coke cans and Marlboro packs as accessories. Reduced to anonymous conveyors of capitalism, Simons went as far as to have them marked with faux-tattoos of corporate logos.

This top features imagery by Peter de Potter, a frequent collaborator of Simons. This tank top dons an array of images, including a parody of the Canon and Xerox logos. The cut is intentionally slim, designed to hug the wearer’s body.

Condition: 9/10. No noticeable flaws

Tagged size: 46

Pit to Pit: 16

Length: 26