excerpt: ANN DEMEULEMEESTER. FALL 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

 

"Reiterating from my Spring 2024 review of the Ann Demeulemeester franchise, as it continues on without the famed Belgium designer who retired in 2010, handing the reins to French fashion designer Sébastien Meunier, who left the label in 2020 after retailer mongel Claudio Antonioli bought the Ann Demeulemeester brand name.  In a vain effort to reanimate Ann Demeulemeester's 1990s stylisations.  As noted in my review, it may have been prudent, before the resurrection of the Ann Demeulemeester gothic inclination, to ritually clear the brand name prior to redefining it.

As both Demeulemeester's feminine goth romanticism, and then Meunier's more focused Byronic antihero, encapsulated that very appealing 18th, 19th Century poetic darkness of the misunderstood and misaligned rebel.  Maintaining a stalwart following amongst the many goths who could afford a Demeulemeester and Meunier ensemble..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/05/ann-demeulemeester-fall-2024-paris.html 

(A.Glass 2024)