EXCERPT: COURRÈGES - PRE-FALL 2024

 

"...And with climate change already causing havoc with global weather patterns, the uncertainty of what is instore for us under the indifference of the natural construct, has become harder to predict.   The other noted impact on not just fashion, but everything in general, is the Western world leaning further to the Right Wing spectrum of politics.  And if a social cue can be seen, it would be that society is becoming more conservative.  Which has been brewing for a while now, with the beat up of the so called Left wing digression, which never really existed as a bonafide counterculture of the last decade, has yet to materialize. 

Nicolas Di Felice Courrèges collections has always offered that humanist hope, that very much align with the late designer André Courrèges, who passed away in 2016, that the future will be better.  Renown for his 1960s "Space Age" inspired styles, as the utopian desires of the 1950s began to peter out, replaced by a youthful counterculture who were eager to remove the shackles of conservatism, to which Courrèges said for his Spring 1964 collection, that  "A woman's body must be hard and free, not soft and harnessed. The harness, the girdle and bra - is the chain of the slave"  Hence why, Di Felice has maintained Courrèges template of braless models, and oval cutout shapes, centered around the chest and midriff..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/04/courreges-pre-fall-2024.html  

(A.Glass 2024)