Excerpt: May 22, 2022. "BALENCIAGA - RESORT 2023. NEW YORK CITY"
..The invitation for the 'Wall Street' Balenciaga show were fake $100 bills, either Demna was offering a glimpse to the layman that inflation has and is starting to erode the value of wealth or could it be a sardonic poke at capitalism and the rarity of assets, to which Balenciaga is not a cheap product. Either way, the show must go on to which Demna offered as a clue to the latter, "...to make a product that is desirable, to create desire. That’s what fashion should do...", whilst inscribing his contradictory impressions by saying, "...We live in a terrifying world, and I think fashion is a reflection of that… I think it was quite urgent, a quite urgent show....".
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
(A.Glass 2022)
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