EXCERPT: SAINT LAURENT. SPRING 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

"...And there is no doubting the lavishness of the Saint Laurent shows, with the Spring 2023 being of no exception to its own arabesque opulence, once again utilizing the Parisian fixture of its Eiffel Tower as the backdrop.  Vaccarello has taken the runway setting to new highs, despite the calamity and turmoil in the world, his latest Saint Laurent show is a benchmark to its extravagance.

But, it is Vaccarello's crisscrossing times lines of the last 40 years to which I find fascinating of a designer, as noted in many of my reviews since his tenue, who has an ardent fixation on the late 1970's and early 1980's aesthetics, whilst playing with 1960's counterculture.  Which defined the sexual liberation, as an important backlash against conservative values of the 1950's, later morphing into an all out hedonism of the 1970's.  And there is an important element in all Vaccarello's dynamism, that one should be aware of, that being the reflected simulacrum of his hyperreal template..."

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Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/09/saint-laurent-spring-2023-paris-fashion.html  

(A.Glass 2022)