excerpt: Chloé Resort 2027 - lookbook
"...And it is hard not to romanticize and reminisce those three decades of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, as the standard on how a society can repel those nasty Far Right elements forever lurking within the confines of suburbia, yearning for a feigned and restrictive, political structure, over change. Or at least buying into the bullshit of early to current 2000s culture wars. Kamali isn't offering any clues for a hedonistic revamp, or an impression to rekindle the flames of those rebellious Boomer years, she is however allowing the aesthetics to do the talking. Kamali, quoting for her Chloé Resort 2027 collection, saying that, " There’s so much power in the past and what a memory can trigger, and this, for me, is what gives meaning " . And the past, particularly within its powerful resonation, can just do that, give us some meaning. Or at least, as a psyche nudge, to draw from what was laid down as a creative purpose, and let it be released and renew...
