excerpt: David Koma. Fall 2026 - lookbook
"...And Koma has upped the ante once again, with hedonic end-of-the world fucking, as the ultimate protest and disconnection from our self censoring and desire shaping via the digital realm. With 36 pieces in total, orchestrated around a follow on from his "Supergirl" pre-Fall 2026 lookbook , which despite its hyperreal lenings, actually ended up reworking superhero fetishes to controlling the projection, that we are mostly antiheroes. The Fall 2026 collection takes a step further by mixing in white swan symbolism, within brutalism architecture, very 1970s esque symbolism , of what a dystopian stark future maybe, or in reverse, might be liberating. Depending on your perspective of the 1970s and 1980s counterculture ethos, in compared to our steel and glass, prefabricated, current proto-Fascist world, which is not offering change, but stability with oppression, which is, in all of its irony, in a constant state of collapse. Bla...
