A VAMPIRE FANGS CUFF DEBUTED ON RAF SIMONS' LAST RUNWAY

A cuff shaped like two vampire fangs closed out Raf Simons' own label. It debuted on the same runway that ended twenty seven years of a brand built on his name, cast in silver toned brass and sized to wrap a forearm like a weapon nobody asked for. Das Archivee resurfaced it this week, the same account that put a forgotten Carhartt WIP lunch bag back in front of 349,000 followers seven days earlier.

The Cuff Is Cast in Silver Toned Brass

The Raf Simons Vampire Fangs Cuff is made from polished silver toned brass, hollow on the inside, with a tiny branded emblem as its only extra detail. It hooks around the forearm but can also sit lower on the wrist, or even the leg, the way H. Lorenzo described it when the Los Angeles retailer first stocked the piece as part of the label's final ready to wear delivery, not as a standalone jewelry drop. Retail was $1,195, well above what most accessory lines charge and squarely in archive collector territory. The design skips stones or plating entirely; the fangs alone do the work, cast as one continuous piece rather than mounted onto a separate band, meant to read as a single object rather than jewelry with a charm attached.

Printworks Hosted the Show That Ended the Label

Raf Simons showed the Vampire Fangs collection at Printworks, a London nightclub, during Frieze Week in October 2022, under the name Corps, Coda. It was his Spring Summer 2023 lineup, and the last one his namesake brand would ever present. On November 21, 2022, twenty seven years after founding the label, Simons announced its closure on Instagram, just over a month after that Printworks show. The closure made him, already Prada's co creative director since 2020, a designer whose own name no longer had a runway home, not unlike Helmut Lang shipping a full lookbook without naming a creative director at all, a company that has run that same experiment for two decades.

'Symbols of Enjoyment and Revelry'

Simons described the fang and skeletal hand pieces in the collection as symbols of enjoyment and revelry, reminders of humanity. The line also included a Vampire Fangs necklace, a smaller fang pendant in gold toned brass on a lobster clasp chain decorated with his signature R logo, priced at $995. Jewelry built from teeth and bone was not shock value in Simons' catalog; it read closer to a closing statement about mortality dressed as merchandise. Finally Offline has tracked that same instinct toward hardware carrying the narrative elsewhere, like when Playboi Carti commissioned Slawn for a custom piece through London's A Jewellers, where the object did the talking instead of the outfit around it.

One Photo Credit Resurfaced Twice in a Week

Das Archivee credited this repost to chromeg1rl, the same photo credit behind a Carhartt WIP Lunch Bag the account resurfaced on August 17, 2026, seven days before this post. That repost put a five year old fifty five dollar workwear accessory back in front of Das Archivee's audience, and this one does the same for a discontinued thousand dollar piece of runway jewelry. Two recirculations from one photo credit inside of a week is not a coincidence; it is how a 349,000 follower archive account builds a reputation for surfacing the real thing before anyone else finds it. Neither post is a retail listing. Both are proof that Simons' fang pieces still move through internet fashion circles nearly four years after H. Lorenzo stopped restocking them.

The Label Closed. Prada Never Did.

Simons has not shown under his own name since that October 2022 collection, but he never left the industry. He has held the Prada co creative director title alongside Miuccia Prada since April 2020, and the two of them presented Prada's Fall Winter 2025 2026 menswear collection together, four years into a partnership that outlasted his solo brand. The Vampire Fangs Cuff is closer to a final artifact from twenty seven years of Raf Simons as a standalone label than any garment from that last collection, because jewelry does not go out of season the way ready to wear does. The company ended. The demand for anything carrying his name did not, and a $1,195 cuff still surfacing on a curation account in 2026 is the receipt.

Call the jewelry early archive rather than dead stock. Neither the cuff nor its $995 necklace ever restocked, so every reappearance only tightens a supply that was never large to begin with, and objects that cannot be reordered tend to get more valuable the longer they stay out of production. Expect Das Archivee and accounts like it to keep pulling this exact cuff back into circulation for years, the same way any closed label's last drop eventually becomes the one collectors chase hardest.