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

"...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.  But, despite referring to Viard's collections as risqué for the famous fashion house, the Parisian designer does, at times, shift her Chanel styles back to their modernist roots, which endowers the collections with a sameness in its visual temperament.  Viard's Fall 2023 couture array for Chanel, unfortunately does prescribe to that homogeneous statement.

Paris has endured its worst riots in over two decades, which comes after a teenager was shot and killed by police.  These major protests, which consisted of younger and poor Parisians turned parts of Paris into a warzone.  Yet, it was the technocrat and neoconservative French President Emmanuel Macron, who in an hyperreal and absurd comment blamed, in a partial statement for the riots, on video games that he believed had "intoxicated" the minds of teenagers of France.  And it has to be reminded that Macron believes fervently that peace though superior firepower in turning Ukraine into a push button war machine with a Nuclear armed power, that being Russia and its aggression towards the Ukrainian people.  Is the solution for peace.  And with this backdrop of social discord, confusion and violence, Paris Fashion Week occurred.  More so 2023 Couture, which only exacerbated the hyperreality of it all..."

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(A.Glass 2023)

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