EXCERPT: VETEMENTS. FALL 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

 

"...However, the overall presentation for Guram's latest ensemble does have an intriguing Avant-garde feel, with its doomy, apocalyptical imprint.  A reflection of a fashion trend, as we all move further into 2024, that globally turmoil is everywhere.  Regardless of being washed over with last gasps of denial through our social media feeds, the human race is in trouble.  A New Cold War and Nuclear arms race, the West backing a genocide in Gaza, via Israel.  Climate change, as extreme weather patterns will eventually affect food supplies.  The  list of these tumultuous events appears, at this point in time, endless.  The pandemic of 2020 was just the beginning.

And fashion works best, when it assists, even in its obscurity, heralding in a counter culture, which, despite the students of the world galvanizing to protest against the Gaza genocide, remains elusive.  So, when I view the antifashion or backlash styles, such as Vetements, there is a desire to see the absurd and surreal cleverly used to reveal its contradictions.  And in all of its honesty, when achieved, holds a lasting appeal.  

I have yet to see this with Vetements.

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(A.Glass 2024)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/05/vetements-fall-2024-paris-fashion-week.html