From the Chiasmus archive: "THREEASFOUR. COUTURE 2023"

 "There isn't many Avant-garde designers left, an early 2000 trend which reached its peak in 2015.  Experimental fashion held a niche within the fashion world, with Rick Owens currently holding the mantle as the stalwart avant-garde designer.  And of late, there has been a renewed interest with some of the newer designers and established brands of the risque.  To invigorate the trend, through lookbook presentations and runway shows.

The New York City fashion designers Gabriel Asfour, Angela Donhauser and Adi Gil with their collaborative brand ThreeASFOUR have maintained, regardless of fluctuating trends, their enthusiasm for the avant-garde and the boundary pushing aesthetics which they've achieved, since their first show in 2016 at New York Fashion Week.  The trio of creatives, utilizing the futurists imprint, more so 3D printing to create textures and intricate arrays for their collections, have grounded the collections within the metaphysical, science and natural construct in formulating their distinct looks.  And it is nature as a creative engine, with its patterns and configurations, seen through our own humanistic imprint, as we, human beings, transcend through nature.  And there is no doubting that at the same time, we are undeniable having an impact on its foundations.  To our detriment.  

From time to time, although not of late, I had inserted into the many fashion reviews that I have written over the years, of my own art manifesto titled XENOSTRUCTURALISM.  To which, I have four catalogues that have documented my art over the last 10 years.   I do try not to equate my own art with the art and design, that includes fashion, of others.  But, I do sometimes see, coincidently or not, similarities of my own artistic concepts within the ThreeASFOUR template..."

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(A.Glass 2023) 

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/08/threeasfour-couture-2023.html