excerpt: CHANEL. HAUTE COUTURE 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

"The late French philosopher, Albert Camus famously said, "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."   We do live in extraordinary absurd times.  The pandemic that passed after two years of on and off again lockdowns, where the technocrats believed that they could print money to offset a viral outbreak, would be testament to the theorization that the economy is paramount over anything else.  Where the stock market, at the time of the pandemic, rose equally to the death count.  And now in 2024 we are all paying for our misaligned economic and social folly, inflation which is imbedded into our economies, extreme politcal discord and more alarmingly a new Cold War with Russia and China.  

To me Virginie Viard is that society influenced avant-grade designer or at least a restrained one in light of her taking the reigns form the late Karl Lagerfeld in 2019, her collection, although following the Chanel template have been tweaked and in some ways dramatically redefined through Viard's creative nouse..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/07/chanel-haute-couture-2023-paris-fashion.html

(A.Glass 2023)