Excerpt: SAINT LAURENT. PRE-FALL 2024 - PARIS

 

"Vaccarello's carnal reflections of the hedonist 1970s and 1980s has now been firmly ingrained into the late Yve Saint Laurent mythos, who, as a passed on spirit, was very much the epitome of an epicurean apex, of those said eras.   As a society now, within its own tipping point of over Two decades of a middle class conservatism, despite the digital relays offering the taboo.  It is still yet to define what a renewed counterculture will look like, even through Vaccarello has paid homage to the hedonistic cues of the last 50 years, they do indeed hold a delicious possibility that it may return with gusto.  But also, it may not. 

Yet, as the creative director of Saint Laurent and his flirtation with the eros, and that sexual allure of the casual tryst, I do feel there has always been a darker element to Vaccarello's romanticism of the 70s and 80s.  Which I've noted from my previous reviews of his collections over the years, that may allude to the restless spirits who are indeed part of the many boulevards of broken dreams.  That is because the past is of the dark, as we move into the light.  Whether metaphor or not, if one is to continue looking into the past to be inspired and even rejuvenated by it, we may end up disturbing what does not want to be disturbed.  Or fail to learn from the lessons of past resonation..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/07/saint-laurent-pre-fall-2024-paris.html

(A.Glass 2024)