EXCERPT: SAINT LAURENT. RESORT 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

 

"...Vaccarello's counterculture interest of the 1960s and 1970s, as the sexual liberation gave rise to new found hedonism, and his experimentation of the early to mid 1980s, particularly the manifestation of the ambitiousness of greed that aspects of late 20th Century society entailed.  At least as a divisive element, before everyone got greedy in the early 2000s ala mortgages and DVD players.    And it was that clear distinction between wealthy and poor throughout the 1980s, that also heralded a narcissistic charm to the said timeline.

Yet, despite the hedonism and epicurean opulence of Vaccarello's Saint Laurent, there  also appears to be a stripping back of the late Yves Saint Laurent imprint.  Vaccarello's opulent and grandiose runway shows seem to have taken a slight step back from their over-the-top extravagance.  Could it be a moral undertaking? As the world, within a similarity of the First Cold War, which was close to the brink of nuclear annihilation.  Are we there again?..."

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(A.Glass 2024)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/01/saint-laurent-resort-2024-paris-fashion.html