EXCERPT: COURRÈGES. SPRING 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

 

"...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.

As noted with prior reviews of his collections I have noticed Di Felice offer a spiritual slant or at least an expression of challenging aspects of our materialistic world, to which fashion holds as one of its many contradictions.  Noted with his Fall 2023 collection, Di Felice commentated on our dependence of the digital age.  Akin to the 1960's, where technology was supposed to set us free.  Our mobile phones were touted to offer so much, but delivered so little apart from a feigned belief of significance via social media apps.  Is there a new counterculture brewing on the horizon?  So far it feels illusive, despite our similarities to the 1960's and 1970's, society, as it stands today, is fastly more vexed..."

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

(A.Glass 2023)