Excerpt: Saint Laurent. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"Does Anthony Vaccarello believe in ghosts?  He should, as he keeps evoking the restless spirits from eras gone by.  As a respectful homage?  At times, when one should view the past as a lesson and release the residual that wishes to leave this earthly realm.  And of my many reviews of Vaccarello's Saint Laurent shows, with his aptitude of upping the ante of the carnal, there is also, at times, a bluntness of drawing from the past.  Whether it be his romanticism of the heroin chic Chelsea Hotel of the mid to late 1970s or the hedonic cocaine nights of Studio 54 of the late 1970s, that went onto the early to mid 1980s, offers a tantalizing glimpse into the libreative aspects of hedonistic cues.  But, it came with a cost.  As one precariously lived closer to the edge of oblivion in that hunt for fame, many did fall into the boulevard of broken dreams, and New York City, Los Angeles spat out those dreamers in rapid succession over the last Five decades, in their vain hopes and dreams of stardom.  

How does this compare with the current hyperreal of TikTok famers on a digital reloop, and the plethora of nobodies all vying for the delusion of grandeur through a mobile phone.  It doesn't.  it is incomparable..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/09/saint-laurent-spring-2025-paris-fashion.html

(A.Glass 2024)