Excerpt: David Koma. Pre-Fall 2025

 

"I have always been a James Bond fan, being that tailend of the late Sean Connery finishing with playing the character, through to his comeback as James Bond in "Never Say Never Again" (1983), which showed up as an absolute reflection of 1980s hedonic overtures, with the beautiful Barbara Carrera portraying the hypersexual and violent "Fatima Blush", in my opinion, as one of the most striking mythos of psychopathy in Bond Femme Fatale lore.  Of course, it must also be noted all of the late Roger Moore and his James Bond movies throughout the 80s with the bevvies of Femme Fatales in tow, stopping after the short run of Pierce Brosnan's take on Bond, in which he did a very good job.  But, not bothering with Daniel Craig's interpretation of the infamous English spy.  James Bond is, and will always be a 1960s,1970s and 1980s pop culture icon, it doesn't really work within the currently confused 21st Century.  

David Koma, the UK fashion designer, who has as an eternal love affair with the epicurean of the last Forty years, which as the last remnants of counterculture, that being the hedonism  of the 1970s.  Which ceased at the start of the 1990s, when Generation X decided to embrace 21st century confusion, and began to go backwards into a odd version of 1950s sensibilities, and into, and yes as mentioned numerous times, mortgages and DVD players, and now Netflix..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/01/david-koma-pre-fall-2025.html