Excerpt: CULT GAIA - RESORT 2023

"Cult Gaia, with the name that says it all and in light of my Fall 2022 review of the brand, creative director Jasmin Larian Hekmat maintains her love affair with the 1960's and mid 1970's modernist fashion.  And I have to admire Hekmat's passion towards these bygone eras that were in hindsight very significant milestones of the mid to late 20th Century.  The beginning of the space age, computer chip, nuclear power and youth countercultures from the U.K 'mods', which brought clean cut modernist styles to its forte, onto cultish aspects of the hippie and pre hedonisms of disco and nightclubs.  Even though these countercultures set the stage for the decades that followed, they have since petered out into a simulacrum of 21st Century digital market places.  The 60's and 70's did indeed set the precedence of sexual liberation, women's reproductive rights and artistic creativity to new highs.   

Although Hekmat is recopying the said trends and I mean this in the most respectful way, she has been able to instill an interesting take on the space-age aesthetic to which fashion designers of that period like Mary Quant, André Courrèges and Pierre Cardin had already defined the template for 1960's futurist looks..."

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Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/11/cult-gaia-resot-2023.html

(A.Glass 2022)