EXCERPT: BALENCIAGA. SPRING 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

 

 "...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? 

In its bluntness, only as an aesthetical cue.   The artist must always maintain an obscurity to the point that the viewer can discern the underlying elements to his or her art.  The subtle is the awareness that there is only so much one can do about the descending chaos.   To which we must learn to be fearless.  To be courageous and overcome.  The Earth was born from Hadean (Hell) and  humanity's lesson is to accept its hell state to overcome it.   But, the lessons will be brutal. 

Can we pullback from the cusp?   Hard to say.  So far there is no cohesive counterculture.  When the 1960's and 1970's set a precedence of a necessary backlash against the institutionalized world, which harbored the rigidity of the family values template, with the promise that technology and the technocrats will set you free.  It was the gay and women's right movements, sexual liberation and anti nuclear war protests that gave us the possibility that we could see a society free of war and prejudices..."

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

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(A.Glass 2022)