Excerpt: BALENCIAGA. SPRING 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

"Demna Gvsalia's Balenciaga has reunited with his doomsday ethos, as it was expressed with his Fall 2020 showing at the cusp of the worst pandemic humanity faced since the Spanish Flu over 100 years ago.  And we didn't cope.  In fact in has been a societal pre curser to a collapse via a micro organism, which was its primer, but we, collectively were heading towards a collapse regardless.  The polarization, from both the left and right, with the extreme right flouting its take on the 1990's paleo-libertarianism from repetitive podcasts, trying to convince themselves that the left wing, equality movements are to blame, shows the extend to how fractured and broken society has become.  Yet, this sociological breakdown is all but a reverberation of the structural decline that has been occurring from climate change, economic malady and of course the possibility of Nuclear War. 

The questions may be numerous on how we all ended up like this, but the reality is and it is sound in its observation, that we have been sleep walking into calamity since the onset of the digital relays.   A self centered greedy society is always its own undoing and it is coming undone.   Can Demna, who has been on the forefront, in all of its irony as the antithesis fashion designer.  Hold an answer?..."

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Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/10/balenciaga-spring-2023-paris-fashion.html

(A.Glass 2022)