Excerpt: Balenciaga. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 "...Yet, Demna despite his blunt appeal for a "point of view" ambiguity is still very much his guide for the Balenciaga showpiece, and his latest runway showing for Paris Fashion Week, included that same captivation of oddness we have seen from many Demna inspired Balenciaga runway shows.  From the quirky dinner setting, through to Demna's attempt at creating a social scene at ease with itself, less sexual tension, and more relaxed and open.  Maybe, Demna is reminiscing those late 1970s or early to mid Eighties settings, that did actually set the tone for a tryst later that evening.  But, gone are those days.  Only to replaced, yes in our strange conservative, hyperreal setting of social media ambitions, of staring at mobile phone screens, hyper anxiety, depressed mania episodes, and those psychosis laced 'party' drugs to get through the evening. 

These contrasts on display for his latest collection, could be Demna offering some ideas to the restless, while they await on the sidelines.  Be it that romanticized lower Manhattan, 1980s and 1990s Thrift store styles (not many of these store's exist anymore), which are evident throughout his Spring 2025 collection, seen as the thrown together mix and match, ad hoc formal/streetwear arrays, which have become more evident with Demna's latest Balenciaga showings, claiming that he, "likes the mess"..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/balenciaga-spring-2025-paris-fashion.html 

(A.Glass 2024)