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Fashion has appropriated the yellow vests that have come to represent the struggle of the French working class. According to The Guardian hi-vis is everywhere:
I predict the dilettantes will stop wearing their "labourers' tuxedos" as soon as someone mistakes them for a trash collector but now that the working class look has been commodified can the end of the gilet jaunes movement be far behind?At Paris fashion week in June, I clocked fashion director Marc Goehring in a security guard-like fluoro tabard, while Virgil Abloh was rocking a next season Louis Vuitton neon utility holster of his own design. At the AW18 shows, there was so much hi-vis, attendees might have thought they’d wandered on to a construction site.
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