EXCERPT: CULT GAIA - RESORT 2023

"...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.  Yet, it is refreshing to see Hekmat reinstate that allure of  60's and 70's lasciviousness, under her brand Cult Gaia by reflecting an aesthetical homage, in all of its necessity the sexual empowerment of the feminine..."

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