EXCERPT: BALENCIAGA. PRE-FALL 2024 - LOS ANGELES.

 

"...Demna's Balenciaga always seems to invoke in me the theory from the late dissent French postmodernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who famously wrote "Simulacra and Simulation" in 1980 as an underlying blueprint to simulation theory, beyond the science friction of a supercomputer, it is us, living in a postmodern society which has become inundated with exaggerated meaning and images, thus we have all become, willingly or not, part of the hyperreal.  As reality becomes more and more swamped by the hyperreal order.  And without giving too much credit to Demna's creative invigoration, and its possible effect on the spectator, for me it's more of an observation within its absurdity. As he infuses a plethora of celebrities to his deconstructive narrative of the Balenciaga brand name (Please refer to my Pre-Fall 2023 review),  Demna's hyperreal debacle has returned to the only place that could possible host all of his mirrored contradictions, Los Angeles..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/12/balenciaga-pre-fall-2024-los-angeles.html 

(A.Glass 2023)