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EXCERPT: MAISON MARGIELA ARTISANAL. SPRING 2024 COUTURE. PARIS

   


"...To be humble within our fragility.  Instead we have Two major conflicts, a genocide in Gaza by Israel, ultra conservative Hard Right governments being voted into power throughout the world.  Global climate in disarray, and economic minded Technocrats, who believe that statistically everything can be managed.  As inflation is now embedded into everyday living, given rise to plethora of cashless millionaires, and wayward hopefuls who are the new poor.

So, when viewing Galliano's latest spectacle for Maison Margiela, even though it portrays the appeal of a fetish hedonism as a past inspired counterculture, although currently it doesn't exist in any renewed form.  Galliano's Spring 2024 Couture collection is an indulgent exhibition, in its simulacrum of decadence.  It feels empty and uninspiring.

I will leave this review with a poem from the French Avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who returned from WW1 with shrapnel embedded into his skull, in constant pain he became one of Europe's most famed poets of the 1900s.  He died in 1918 from Spanish Flu.

“I have drunk you and my thirst survives 
But now I know the flavor of the cosmos”


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