Excerpt: R13. Pre-Fall 2025 - New York City




 "...Can our long awaited rebellious counter culture return with gusto?  So far, the horizon looks void and empty, and if a new Blank Generation is to arrive on the scene, it may arrive like it was always there, or not at all.   In the meantime, the most Fascist and dangerous President America has ever had, has been voted in for the 2nd time.  Yet, Chris Leba of R13, as noted with his Spring 2025 collection is offering a clue, that what ended in New York City, may also begin in New York City, with his homage to the rebellious and punk rock stylisations that have been molded to fit the R13 personae, without relying too much on nostalgia. 

For Leba's Pre-Fall 2025 lookbook array, the NYC designer has crafted that effortless, devil-may-care styling, in complementing that beloved iconic Punk Rock ethos of not caring, or overthinking of what you are wearing.  The youth over the decades have been able to achieve this so well, and if it is one of their unconscious lessons that the young can offer, before it's structured out of them and they join, if they make it, the legions of Middle Class wannabes, let's rejoice in the effortless.  Leba's 1990s grunge, which was Generation X attempt at reliving Punk in the early 90s, is somewhat being reflected with his latest styles, yet all within those 1970s and 1980s counterculture stylizations..."

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(A.Glass 2024)

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