fashion excerpt: Vetements. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

".... it offered through the internet, of that seemingly unlimited ambition of entrepreneurialism, where anyone with a mobile phone can make it.  Of course that has created an avalanche of delusion and filled an endless boulevard of broken dreams, to which the Gsvalia brothers have reflected this steady decline of civilization via fast paced consumption, in their portrayal of both Vetements and Balenciaga. 

For Vetements 10th anniversary show, Guram held it within a disused underground mall inside the basement of the Montparnasse Tower, the controversial skyscraper, the city of Paris's only one until 2015, which was completed in 1973 as a bulking glass and steel monolithic eyesore.  Which continues to stand out on the Parisian skyline, as a reminder of those Cold War 1970s gentrification and modernization building programs, that began in earnest, lapping up modernist architecture as a solution for high density living of the future.  Yet, only showing up as dystopian landscape from the 1970s and 1980s, with its urban decline mixed with a future hopefulness, unlike our widespread prefabrication of today..."

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

(A.Glass 2024)