EXCERPT: "COURRÈGES. FALL 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK"

" ...Everything is in disarray at the moment post the 2020 pandemic, from economic, geopolitical and sociological.  Rationale has seem to have gone out the window, which maybe reflective as a catalyst, and warning that society is breaking down.   And if we are to look at Science Fiction as a reference point, in light of Courrèges's interest of the more utopian concepts of 1960's futurism in all of its technological hope, it was the late designer's idealistic stylization for a counter culture that never was, which in the end was smothered by 1970's hedonism.  Never-the-less the late French designer offered a glimpse of an era through his fashion designs, that many truly believed would be removing the shackles of 1950's conservatism and its stifling family values.  A societal and sexual liberation.  That our current society in all of its confusion, appears to have remolded  50's idealism with token inclusions, solely as a selling point to the multitudes of digitized markets.    

So, it is refreshing to see Di Felice tweak the obscurity of the Courrèges time-line and as noted in my Fall 2022 review he has certainly risen to the occasion in defining his imprint for Courrèges.    The Fall 2023 collection has further lifted the benchmark,  with the collection more direct and straightforward in its array, utilizing smoke machines, with the opening models walking the runaway staring at their cellphones in a obsessive and mechanical way..."

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/04/courreges-fall-2023-paris-fashion-week.html

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(A.Glass 2023)