EXCERPT: DAVID KOMA. FALL 2024 - LONDON FASHION WEEK.

 

"...There is no denying the turmoil of our world, from wars, climate change, with economic and political dark clouds looming.  It is a constant reminder that humanity lives within the unpredictable.  And while the 2020 pandemic has seemingly abated, it has left a society in disarray.   Everything has been effected, including the creatives, who in turn have impacted the Fashion industry; seen as a visual representation of current societal aesthetics.  However, it does feel there is an aura of confusion and misalignment within this visualization.  

Which leads me to an overall observation that a so-called counterculture remains very much elusive.  As things are indeed changing in a dramatic manner, yet there has been no heed or call for widespread change.  Which originates from the youth more times than not, yet there really isn't anything on the horizon.  And a banner or hashtag will not do. Instead what has been entrenched over Two decades, and I use this term as a metaphor, has been a mortgage boom and (it was once DVD players) now it's netflix and those feigned hopes of celebritydom.  At least the 1960s back-lashed successfully against 1950s conservatism and a Cold War with all of its thermonuclear annihilation, the 1970s carried on and gave us creative hedonism, while the 1980s maintained this throughout its decade, it wasn't until the dawn of the digital age, the 1990s and 2000s, where everybody could become a entrepreneur with masses of financial debt..." 

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(A.Glass 2024)