EXCERPT: BALENCIAGA FALL 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

"...Demna's Fall 2024 showing in Paris, after his hyperreal Hollywood affair, falls within the same attributes of his pseudo obverse presentation.  The grandiose and the backlash are all intact, the collection starts of with a simulacrum of Cristóbal's couture imprint, descending closer to Demna's idealism that fashion is all about deconstruction.  In which a budding fashion graduate could find a correlation with, except for the fact Demna would use and utilize materials of quality to create, towards the end of the styles on show, what a 1st year designer would create with what they could afford.  And in its presentation, Demna has ended up mocking the independent fashion designer, who by all definition, as discussed, has Buckley's chance in this current industry.

This in turn creates the difficulty for the rebellious or even the contrarian to identify with Demna, and that maybe the point.  Where, there is no apparent counterculture to be seen, only that over reliance of being graced with celebritydom on TikTok, to which Demna ironically critiques with his AI nightmare inspired video presentation for his Fall collection, of reality consuming itself.  Maybe Demna's collapse of his hyperreal world, that we are observing with Balenciaga's Thousand Dollar price tags, will be solely a masochistic affair.  To be viewed, at our 11th hour."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/03/balenciaga-fall-2024-paris-fashion-week.html 

(A.Glass 2024)