Excerpt: COURRÈGES. SPRING 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

"Nicolas Di Felice's inclination towards the Avant-garde is more evident with his Spring 2024 collection for Courrèges, taking the late André Courrèges, who passed away in 2016, signature label into risqué territory.  Which makes sense as experimental fashion and the creative elements of Avant-garde are now solidifying itself as a benchmark trend for 2024.  And if you know your fashion history, André Courrèges was that quintessential modernist and futurist designer, who emerged from the counterculture template of 1960's, embracing modernism, technology and Space travel as focal points to human endeavour.   The 60's imparted liberation through science, as an important humanist milestone that allowed women to become sexually active under their own freedom of choice.  The contraceptive pill offered that release from the conservatism and stagnated 1950's, and futurism was front and centre as an inspiration, when nuclear power promised unlimited energy, sans highly toxic plutonium.  And the Space race invoigrated that enticing possibility that humans would one day conquer the cosmos.  Yet, festering underneath these mid-century utopian dreams were crumbling Western cities, smog, pollution, hyperconsumption and thermonuclear weapons.  It was the 1970's that injected the right amount of hedonism into the youth of the 60's.  And this is where I feel  Di Felice sits, in between Courrèges modernist wonderland of the 1960's, and the hedonistic sexual intensity of the 1970's..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/09/courreges-spring-2024-paris-fashion-week.html