Excerpt: CHRISTOPHER KANE. PRE-FALL 2023

"Christopher Kane for his latest collection stays in tune with his intricacy of defining the sexual elements of the feminine.  And can be said that aesthetics can either enhance or restrict freedom of expression, as noted with his Spring 2023 collection, the bondage, latex and medical fetish arrays have been maintained with his Pre-Fall collection.

The hedonism of late 1970's has been played out numerous times by various fashion designers, in its romanticism of an era that truly did live by the Friday night disco and the subsequent one night stand.  And it was achieved under the real shadow of nuclear annihilation and a society that was also impacted with an energy crisis that lasted until the early 1980's.  The counter culture of the 1960's of revolution and change was replaced by living on that edge of a tomorrow that may never transpire.   It took over a decade later, going into the 1990's when the generation that came up after that tumultuous period, began to embrace the digital  age, which in turn imprinted wayward ambitions of grandeur.   As seemingly the Cold War had ended.  And it was the hope that technology in a globalised world could set us free, and we'd all become entrepreneurs..."

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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/01/christopher-kane-pre-fall-2023.html

(A.Glass 2023)