EXCERPT: MAISON MARGIELA ARTISANAL. SPRING 2024 COUTURE. PARIS

 

"...A clever story teller can rework timelines, within its parallel worlds.  Beyond any postmodern prose, which can often lead into deeper obscurity.  It is the weave, the essence, which holds a conceptual idea together.  And what might seem indifferent and foreign, actual holds familiarity and acceptance that it be the imagination as a guiding light.  And what an imagination Galliano has, worked into a contemporary twist of historic overtures.   

Galliano has maintained his dedicated presence for Maison Margiela Artisanal, redefining its Couture arrays, despite it not under his own name, his latest Spring 2024 collection is very much a Galliano showpiece.  Shown on the nether side of Alexandre III bridge in Paris, in a reflection of 1920s hedonism and the Avant-garde, which swept Europe after WW1.  Creating a charnelle cafés beneath the famous Parisian bridge, in homage to the Rive Gauche of yesteryear and all the restless spirits the have passed through, and if beaconed to return, they will do reluctantly; to haunt an already tumultuous world.  And this is where, like Anthony Vaccarello of Saint Laurent, who has been poking at the 1970s and 1980s hedonistic past, in some ways, showing very little respect to the many that have been lost, who had danced on the edge of oblivion.  And never returned..."

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Full Review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/02/maison-margiela-artisanal-spring-2024.html

(A.Glass 2024)