Excerpt: CULT GAIA. RESORT 2024 - LOS ANGELES

 

"Jasmin Larian Hekmat's Cult Gaia is certainly one of the more interesting newer brands.  And there is, as noted in my previous reviews of Hekmat's collections, a sirenic inventiveness to her designs.  Representing a renewed take on the modernist imprint of the early 1960's mixed with its Hippie-esque cult like fixtures.  Hekmat's Cult Gaia opens up so many imaginative concepts via her styles, and this is what draws me to fashion, is the possibilities that an individual can perceive their own impression via the styles presented.   

As mentioned there is no doubt Hekmat has a fascination with the sweet spot of the bygone countercultures of the 1960's and 1970's in its renewed significance, after the conservative 1950's.  Yet, paradoxically the 50's also gave the world hope, that a Utopian paradise via technological advancements and nuclear energy could elevate humanity into the future..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/11/cult-gaia-resort-2024-los-angeles.html

(A.Glass 2023)