EXCERPT: CULT GAIA. RESORT 2024 - LOS ANGELES

 

"...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.  This of course did not transpire, rather society rejected its restrictive conservatism of family values, imperialist lead wars, pragmatic consumerism while beginning to experiment with psychedelic drugs and alternative lifestyles, hence the liberation  movements of the 60's, particularly the sexual liberation which gave women choice and control over their own body's. 

Hekmat's vigor with Cult Gaia is seen throughout her latest collection, presented as a runway show at the The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in her hometown of Los Angeles.  Hekmat's Resort 2024 collection is one of the largest to date running at 56 pieces.  Accentuating the modernist sex appeal of 1960's post 1950's, just before the mid to late 60's when the counterculture began its slightly more gritter imprint on popular culture..."

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

(A.Glass 2023)