EXCERPT: COURRÈGES - PRE-FALL 2024

 

"...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. 

So, is the next counterculture going to be sexual in nature?  Or at least a new found liberational element of the carnal.  How is that possible?  With social media feeds inundated with narcissism and celebritydom.  Does sex still sell?  Maybe the issue is less the commercialisation of the sexual, but the rejection of its digital imprint.  Millions of selfies in front of mirrors has now become tiring, and ultimately self defeating for the ego.  Sex is the ultimate protest against the rigidity of the stagnated Middle Class.  Yes, we have seen all this before.  But, maybe it's time for a redux.  Without using a cell phone..."

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

(A.Glass 2024)