EXCERPT: CULT GAIA. RESORT 2024 - LOS ANGELES

"...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.   As the wives of salary men, began to become more open to the possibility of extramarital affairs or at least envisioned the idealism as a fantasy; while their husband's were at work.  So the styles presented feel pent up, with a fervor of suppressed desire, as the colour range maintains Hekmat's modernist spectrum of washed out yellows and Earthy tones.  With splashes of vibrant greens and blues, there does feel like a Hippy element has settled into Hekmat's recent collections.  While she has turned up the ante of the amorous, the latest Resort collection indeed raises the bar to its amatory plateau.  With sheer and see through cocktails dresses, Hekmat maybe compressing her 1960's influences and fusing it with the hedonistic 70's.  Which is fine by me.

A beautifully relaxed, open and appealing collection from Cult Gaia."      

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

(A.Glass 2023)