Excerpt: Cult Gaia. Resort 2024 - Los Angeles

 "Jasmin Larian Hekmat's Cult Gaia is certainly one of the more interesting newer brands.  And there is, as noted in my previous reviews of Hekmat's collections, a sirenic inventiveness to her designs.  Representing a renewed take on the modernist imprint of the early 1960s mixed with its Hippie-esque cult like fixtures.  Hekmat's Cult Gaia opens up so many imaginative concepts via her styles, and this is what draws me to fashion, is the possibilities that an individual can perceive their own impression via the styles presented.   

As mentioned there is no doubt Hekmat has a fascination with the sweet spot of the bygone countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s in its renewed significance, after the conservative 1950s.  Yet, paradoxically the 50s also gave the world hope, that a Utopian paradise via technological advancements and nuclear energy could elevate humanity into the future.  This of course did not transpire, rather society rejected its restrictive conservatism of family values, imperialist lead wars, pragmatic consumerism while beginning to experiment with psychedelic drugs and alternative lifestyles, hence the liberation  movements of the 60s, particularly the sexual liberation which gave women choice and control over their own body's..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/11/cult-gaia-resort-2024-los-angeles.html

(A.Glass 2023)

Fall 2024 review soon.