EXCERPT: VETEMENTS. SPRING 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

...Guram Gvasalia of Vetements fame, maintains his fixation, like his brother Demna of Balenciaga fame, of their antifashion ethos.  As noted with my reviews of Demna's extreme reworking of the famed fashion house.  Guram's own brand Vetements, to which Demna was part of before he ventured onto Balenciaga, laid the course for the Gvasalia's reactionary template.  And there does seem to be an attempt of both brother's to push the envelope with their undeniable backlash of fashion, yet paradoxically and with large dashes of contradiction.  As they've maintained an exclusivity and their market share of high priced clothing.  

And Guram's latest collection is within that reflection of an over weighted and inundation of excess, which reminds me once again of a quote from Jean Baudrillard, "to bring about an excess of reality, and have the system collapse beneath that excess."  Is this their unwitting desire?  Particularly Guram who, after missing a few seasons, comes back with a collection that is over 70 pieces, more so presenting his Spring 2024 stylizations with even more excessive selling points, attributing to the extra oversizing of garments and the toying with couture, by calling the collection couture when it is not...."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/07/vetements-spring-2024-paris-fashion-week.html 

(A.Glass 2024)