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

   

"...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.  When it all started to etch itself back into that 50s idealism, where technology will set up free.   

Is David Koma assisting in heralding a possible counterculture?  Or is he at least offering a taste of that hedonism ala the 1970s and early to mid 1980s, in reminiscing that a possible Nuke missile strike from Russia could occur at any moment, while we partied at Studio 54 and danced into oblivion?  At least there was an honesty, rather than staring at a phone and receiving likes on Instagram from a 'bot' based in St Petersburg, in our strange new Cold War.  Hedonism, ironically has a knack of keeping the ego in check.  Yes, it is sex and death.  And one does not have to practice the esoteric for that deeper meditation.   Just look around.  There maybe no tomorrow...."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/02/david-koma-fall-2024-london-fashion-week.html

(A.Glass 2024)