From the CHIASMUS archive: "CRAIG GREEN. SPRING 2024 - LONDON FASHION WEEK"

"Craig Green is one of my favorite U.K. fashion designers, who by his own distinction and originality, has been able to devise an oceanic and sea faring influence, merged as a slick deconstructive imprint to his signature label.  Yet, with the many reviews that l have written over the years, Green has portrayed a cultish element to his collections with his symmetrically adorned robes and aesthetics.  Drawing from the variants of spiritual attire of the many religions of the world, I have always viewed Green collections as a esoterically inspired vanguard of monks, akin to the  religious cults written into fictional lore from Frank Herbert's iconic DUNE universe, through to the Lovecraftian 'doomsday' cults and their mythos that within the ocean depths harbors our timely end.

Which, from a rational point of view could ring true, in its metaphor of our changing climate, that the oceans are rising due to global warming.  And if the polar caps do end up liquefying into our oceans, the sea, as a nightmare scenario may indeed engulf us all.  But, Craig Green is no morbid entity, as his brand name has been more akin to the positive than negative elements of our reality.  And this has to be appreciated for Green's fashion imprint over the years, is that humanity can endure and overcome our dire predicament..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/07/craig-green-spring-2023-london-fashion.html 

(A.Glass 2023)