Excerpt: Simon Miller - Resort 2025

 

"...Reflecting a L.A.,when it began to replace, somewhat, New York City after the 1960s, as that American popular cultural beacon, with the plethora of heyday movie stars and celebrities, that have all since passed on, who would mingle with the locals at the iconic West Hollywood Chasen's American restaurant.  Even with its urban sprawl, L.A. throughout the 70s and 1980s reflected a personified aspiration of celebritydom, way before the digital age and the late Andy Warhol's famous quote, of everyone will be "famous" for 15 minutes in the future holds very much an oracle's relevancy, only to be updated to its now 15 seconds of feigning fame, via the digital reloops.  The pre-digital age felt more real.  Despite the crime, crumbling cities, grit and smog.

Hansford titled her Resort 2025 collection as "Gala", after the late Salvador Dali's muse and wife Gala Dali, who passed away in 1982, and Dali retreated to his revamped 12th Century Castle Tower in La Bisbal, Púbol (Spain).  In which, he had dedicated the historic landmark to the Cult of Gala in his unwavering devotion and love for her.  Yet, the years following her death, she was revealed to be hypersexual with an insatiable appetite for male lovers, also having a controlling persona and short temper.  Hansford's latest array, does indeed show a sexual tension, a dominating presence, yet with its paciful appeal..." 

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(A.Glass 2024)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/11/simon-miller-resort-2025.html