Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck has said that the fashion world is “afraid” of US President Donald Trump and is not going against him for commercial reasons.

Speaking to AFP after showing his collection at Paris Men’s Fashion Week, Walter Van Birendock said he hoped creatives and fashion luminaries would take a stand against Trump’s “disgusting” rhetoric.

The Belgian designer’s show, in which models wore jackets emblazoned with ‘peace not war’ signs, ended with ‘Give Peace a Chance’ by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

“I think it’s on everyone’s mind. It’s horrible what’s happening in the world right now,” he said. “Too much war, too much extreme right,” he stressed.

The fashion designer said he wanted to react to Trump’s inauguration and hoped “more creative people will react.”

“They should talk more,” he told AFP. “Everyone is afraid to sell less, money is an issue, so we see the most incredible things happening and no one reacts,” he argued.

The Antwerp-based independent designer’s comments came two days after Trump’s inauguration in Washington, which was attended by French fashion magnate Bernard Arnault and two of his children.

As reported by AFP, European fashion firms, dominated by the LVMH and Kering groups, are known to be concerned about the potential impact of a trade war between the US and Europe under Trump.

If Trump imposes tariffs on high-end European clothing and leather goods, American consumers would have to pay higher prices at a time when the luxury goods market faces a global slowdown.

Walter Van Birendock, one of the avant-garde fashion designers of the “Antwerp Six”, presented a collection inspired by aliens on the catwalk of Paris Fashion Week Men’s.

The clothes were literally out of this world, collared shirts emblazoned with cartoon spaceships, bags with alien faces and limbs with models sporting prosthetic fingers reminiscent of the adorable alien from 1982’s ET the Extra-Terrestrial.

The collection features brightly colored clothing, favored by the designer with more classic baggy suits in brown and navy tartan tweed, floor-length fringed hats, silk scarves tied around heads and spacesuit-inspired sports jackets with large studs on the shoulders and arms.