EXCERPT: COURRÈGES. SPRING 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

  

"...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.

Di Felice's latest collection, as mentioned, has leaned towards the more hedonistic, rather than any societal questioning.  And this is where the Avant-garde asymmetrical cuts and offset fits, have created a paradoxical element to Di Felice's Courrèges.  The clean modernist looks have been replaced by Studio 54-esque late 70's amatory, with off the shoulder shirts, see-through tulle tops, thigh-high split skirts.  Complemented by models wearing leather knee high boots and ankle strap mules.  Which if one is to analyse, Di Felice' 'knee high boots' they're more attuned to Fall collections, rather than Spring.  But, with pedantic observations aside, Di Felice's has certainty up the ante for his cocktail lounge attire, whist tweaking in the experimental.  Seen with the Plexiglas bra and Avant-garde inspired jewelry.

However, Di Felice's Fall 2024 array for Courrèges, despite the experimental sentiment, has an overtly serious impression, even with its hedonist overtures, it exudes a rigid demeanor.  Which may align with an impassiveness, that our current time line represents."

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

(A.Glass 2023)