Excerpt: David Koma. Pre-Fall 2025

 

"...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.  So, it is a no wonder that for his Pre-Fall 2025 collection, Koma has evoked the Bond Femme Fatale as an inspiration for his latest styles.

Juggling between his newer appointed position as creative director for Blumarine, with a debut show coming up very soon for Milan Fashion Week, and the David Koma signature label.  Admiringly ensuring that his own styliations remain a presendance, at least chronologically before the up and coming Blumarine showing.  Koma has upped the ante of drawing in and reflecting the intensity of the Bond villainess, in all of her ruthlessness, lacking empathy and sexually driven, insatiable behaviour, that we, without admitting, admire her resolved detachment.  Despite the fact, she is usually killed by Bond at some point in that fictional melodrama..." 

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(A.Glass 2025)

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