As many of you know has the meaning of a yellow west suddenly changed.

The signal is not longer just the small children on a school trip, road workers and others who must wear garments that appear extra good.

Since the middle of november, it has become associated with the thousands of frenchmen who are cursed into the French republic Emmanuel Macron and aggressively demonstrating against the policies of France. Demonstrators who on Saturday demolished several lyxmodebutiker in Paris. Many fashion brands chose to move their impressions during the January herrmodevecka in the city, for fear of being attacked by ”gilets jaunes”.

has not much to spare for the particular mode of lyxkaraktär. Or is it just that they have. Dior store on the Champs-Elysées was, for example, länsad during a riot in the fall. ”The people want Dior ‘ was a graffititext.

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But, the yellow vest has in parallel also appeared in fashion. Already, one could say. It usually take some time before the garments associated with the revolt or war is ready to become clothing for the common man, as the first world war, the trench coat or the later years of camouflages. Similarly, it took time for the safety pins and skulls that appear as decorative details in fashion, after the punk.

Several fashion brands have in recent seasons launched garments with a hint of neon or glare.

But a variant of today’s bright yellow vests are already in the French brand Louis vuitton’s menswear collection for spring 2019.

For a couple of weeks ago appeared to one of today’s top of the range, Bella Hadid, at a party in New York city, dressed in an eye-catching yellow neonfärgad herrväst from the mark. It’s got a lot of eyebrows to be raised.

for political discontent? A sign of complete political nollkoll? Or a so-called fashion statement?

Rather the latter. To wear pieces inspired by the luminous work wear including worn by workers in the traffic and air – the so-called high visibility workwear is a trend that bubblat among herrmodet in a while. Several fashion brands have in recent seasons launched garments with a hint of neon or glare, reminiscent of the outdoor clothing manual carrying in order to significantly stand out from the surroundings.

A natural extension of the latest years sportmodetrend with more advanced garments in the high-tech materials, says some.

A lot of of the garments not only visible, they are also often made of materials that can withstand shocks, and in some cases, they even look out to be able to withstand shots. Not infrequently worn, the layers on layers. The style is described, not surprisingly, sometimes also as ”warcore”, that is to say, everyday clothes that are reminiscent of those used in battle.

so far as to say that ”warcore” replaced the previously so popular ”normcore”. Men (for it is mostly men) have begun to simply tough for themselves by supplementing their deliberately indifferent closets with things that balaklavas (knitted luvor that covers the entire face except the eyes), bags worn as ammunitionsbälten and jägarliknande vests.

Maybe the style is also a sign that it is not only frenchmen in the yellow vests who right now feel angry, and at the mercy of a dystopian future. There are many more who do.

Fashion is, after all, still pretty good at reflecting the spirit of the age, and few things sum up the present as well as a neonfärgad vest that both protects and signals that ”here I am”, see me.

Demonstrators in yellow vests clash with police in the city of Nancy. Photo: AFP