fashion excerpt: Vetements. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...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.  

And Guram for his latest collection has cleverly infused this current collapse of our society, lets face it, it is on, with a possible decline in sales, with his own show notes reiterating what the latest Vetements collection represents, "Inspired by the global economic downturn and a consumer base increasingly wary of uncontrolled consumption, the collection is a statement on the need to rethink what fashion means in a world where the old systems are crumbling."

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

(A.Glass 2024)