Excerpt: BALENCIAGA - RESORT 2023. NEW YORK CITY
" ...In front of a select, maskless crowd, surrounded by flat screen trading monitors of companies and their share prices, walked Demna's latex glad, fully masked bondage inspired runway models adorning his Resort styles, which have keep in lockstep with his fine tailoring benchmark for Balenciaga, as noted with Demna's debut couture show . Yet, there is no doubt his latest show is firmly representing Demna's antithesis of fashion. The styles feel dark, not in any avant-garde stylization of gothic inclination, but rather sadomasochist, underground and subversive. It remains fixed in his horror-esque landscape, very much entailing Demna's "terrifying world" of trench coats and oversized blazers, excess and hell states, portrayed by our demonic reflections. With his Adidas collaboration at the tail end of the collection, offering, paradoxically a grounded appeal, while immersing itself into a tipping point of a society that not only has broken down, but is in complete disarray. With no counter culture to guide it out.
Are we at the end?"
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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/05/balenciaga-resort-2023-new-york-city.html
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