Excerpt: Saint Laurent. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

  

"...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.  Yet, arrogance in all of its deluded prefabrication, can hold an appeal, at least in supporting the idealism that somehow we have it all together, when in fact society has moved beyond its Potemkin village stage, and it is now in absolute decline.  Like the band playing away on the sinking Titanic, when it was actually sinking.  A little dramatic?  Maybe, but it's an appropriate metaphor.

Vaccarello's Spring 2025 collection went from his famed eros and amourous benchmarks of the feminine, to the masculine of late 1970s Yves Saint Laurent powersuits, and then, towards the end of the collection, back to the amatory.  In a strange dichotomy of reinvigorating the epicureanism of Fifty years ago, which conked out in the stagnated and entrepreneurial wishfulness of the 1990s..."

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

(A.Glass 2024)