Raf Simons, Calvin Klein's new Chief Creative Officer, is certainly a visionary designer. Defined as the "purist", he believes in fashion as an absolute value beyond commercial logic. Despite his commitments at the head of the artistic direction of great fashion houses such as Dior and Jil Sander, since '95 he has been carrying on his men's line in the small atelier in Antwerp, telling the story of contemporary subcultures and the tailoring of the past.