REblog: March 05, 2022 BALENCIAGA. PRE-FALL 2022

 ...Portrayed as a mix of Polaroid snapshots and sketchy a VHS tape recording, obviously manufactured to look like it is over 30 years old, this novel concept in all of its hyper-reality does indeed create a nostalgic charm, utilizing Demna’s ragtag team of models, the idea is also, when looking at it from a philosophical concept, somewhat unsettling. Representing a collection that not only didn’t exist 30 years ago, but recreating an event that never existed at all in a very convincing way. It is not so much that Demna is plundering the past for ideas, the fashion industry has, for the most part, guilty of, but it is this time travel inspired simulation that when viewed through the digital relays feels empty and lost. A theatrical analog performance of hungry ghosts trying to find appeasement by replaying and acting out an event over and over again on an old VHS tape, but never satisfied..."

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Fall Review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/03/balenciaga-pre-fall-2022.html