turkish designer takes on trump on tokyo runway
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Turkish designer takes on Trump on Tokyo runway

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Models display creations by designer Umit Benan at the end of the Umit Benan collection show in Amazon Fashion Week in Tokyo.
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Embattled Donald Trump faced contempt from the most unlikely of places Tuesday — the Tokyo catwalk at a fashion show inspired by his bete noire: The working Mexican in Texas.
Umit Benan, the Turkish designer born in Germany, educated in Switzerland and based in Milan, made his debut at Japan Fashion Week by transforming an Asian city runway into the Texan desert.
He covered the catwalk in sand, planted giant green cacti and burnt gorse bushes, and past it all strode male models dressed in outfits that fused Mexican colors and fabrics with the American West.
Benan, who has shown his designs in Paris for the last five years, called the spring/summer 2017 collection “Los Bastardos,” which he later translated as “little smart arses, but in a positive way.”
The designer’s life-long work is a study in contrasts stemming from his own nomadic life and exotic background. This time, his inspiration came through a series of road trips through Texas and New Mexico.
While Benan said he had been researching the concept for three years, his catwalk show could not have been more topical — just 20 days before America goes to the polls to elect a new president — either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, the Republican billionaire who has vowed to stop illegal immigrants infiltrating the Mexican border.
“I tell you what, every time I do a collection it always has something to do with politics but it’s never that I plan it,” he told AFP.
Trump, who has crashed in the polls over a series of scandals, has enraged Mexico and inflamed American liberals by vowing to build a wall on the Mexican border in an attempt to halt illegal immigration.
“It’s so much based on exactly the Mexican-American border, it’s insane, but it’s really my inspiration,” Benan explained.
The designer likes to call his fashion shows “a celebration of my vision” rather than a commercial enterprise per se.

Source: Arab News

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