‘ET’ takes down Paris Men’s Fashion Week with some truly out-of-this-world looks

Go big or call home.

On Wednesday, Walter van Beirendonck, one of the vanguard Antwerp Six fashion designers debuted an alien-inspired collection on the Paris Men’s Fashion Week runway.

Totally out-of-this-world clothing followed a space motif, such as collared shirts emblazoned with cartoony spaceships, handbags with alien faces and limbs and, most notably, models all sporting prosthetic fingers reminiscent of adorable namesake. alien from 1982’s ET the Extra-Terrestrial.

A model walked the catwalk wearing a similar set made to look like an orange alien, complete with a hood adorned with an alien face pulled down like a mask.

Others wore floor-length brimmed baseball caps, with some wearing tweed suits with baseball caps, bulbous hats or silk scarves tied around their heads, while some wore space suit-inspired bomber jackets with large jackets running underneath. shoulders and arms.

The prominent colors were on par with the intergalactic theme – neon orange, pink, green and indigo – and many of the outfits were emblazoned with traditional alien faces or heads.

There were also coats emblazoned with extraterrestrial-themed patches that read “no war,” “we come in peace,” and “we are all aliens.”

The show closed with models in the center of the half-moon runway, standing or sitting on bear-shaped chairs, holding up peace signs as John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Give Peace a Chance” played across the venue

Speaking to Agence France-Presse after the show, van Beirendonck said his show was a response to current events, saying there is “a lot of war” in the world, Fox28 reported.

“I think it’s on everyone’s mind. It’s terrible what’s going on in the world right now,” he said, adding that the fashion world is “scared” of newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.

Van Beirendonck, 67, said his show was a response to the current political climate – and hopes “more creative people will respond as well”.

“They should talk more,” the Belgian designer told AFP.

“They are all afraid to sell less, money is a problem, so we see the most incredible things happening and nobody is reacting.”