Excerpt: "SIMON MILLER. FALL 2023 - LOS ANGELES"

"The romanticism with the 1970's and 1980's is probably warranted, in lieu of the chaotic state of the world in 2023.  So, the redrawing from past timelines, while looking for meaning in history can be, although it may not deliver all the answers, a seductive cue.   And for fashion, when sourcing inspiration, the industry as has been moving back and forth from the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's in a perpetual motion of indulgence. Yet, interestingly, the 1950's and 1990's seemly have been left out, which from a sociological standard, our society has taken a lot more of its feigned and bizarre reflection of 50's financial stability and technological 'progress', mixed with 90's entrepreneurism.   But, I do have an affection for the differentials of 70's and 80's popular culture and it defining imprint on society, as the hippie counter culture 'died' in 1968, replaced by discos, hedonism and sex.  Which later became the main play of the day, well and truly into the mid 1980's, before AIDS emerged and our society began to lean towards a more conservative family value template.  And as we all entered the 2000's, and it was the children of the baby boomers which held a desired prosperity or as they say, " it was the decade that spawned DVD's players and mortgages"...."

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(A.Glass 2023)

Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/09/simon-miller-fall-2023-los-angeles.html