EXCERPT: RICK OWENS SPRING 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK
"...The pandemic changed society and our overconfidence of a technological wonder, has come unhinged. The human race is at the brink of annihilation. And at this point in time, our destruction may solely be from our own folly. With no counter-culture or societal revolution akin to the 1960's and 1970's to guide us out. We may truly be at our 11th hour. Is this depressing? It shouldn't be. One can see how Owens has forged a cimmerian landscape into his own realm. Cultivating the artistic drive, so what may seem like a pointless cycle of lethe, that will derive into our inevitable end, can paradoxically, at the same time hold a motivation of purpose.
And if one is to look back to the COVID-19 lockdowns with a possibility of what could have manifested from a period of retrospection. We could have developed a meditative insight or pause from our rapid consumption orientated society, that has commodified every element of its existence through the digital relays. To which Owens has utilized the smoke machine since his Lido, Venice shows, as a possible representation of the meditative encasement that a fog can create. And Venice is famous for its fogs, as noted by the late Russian/American poet *Joseph Brodsky in describing a Venetian fog as an almost liberating experience, in its denial of material reflection..."
Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/06/rick-owens-spring-2024-paris-fashion.html
(A.Glass 2023)
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