Excerpt: Enfants Riches Déprimés. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week.

"...However, backdoor passes into the fashion world are crucial to get over the first hurdle of survival, as are the heavyweight connections.  Levy clearly has those, in the form of actor Jay Leto and other celebrities, yet it has been Courtney Love, who has tucked Levy under her wing, by introducing him to the Los Angeles stylist and costume designer Arianne Phillips.  Levy's striking transformation from screen printing t-shirts to a well crafted version of the late Vivienne Westwood esque 1976 Kings Road, London punk looks.  Which were inspired by a mix of early 1970s New York City proto-punk, and the 1973 Situationist art movement of Paris.  Levy's Enfants Riches Déprimés is certainly a homage to the latter.

But, exclusivity and high costs to price out excesses is novel in its application, akin to the Italian Art Radicals like Superstudio of the 1960s, who created expensive and garish one off art pieces/furniture, including fashion as a protest against capitalism and hyper consumption.  Is not a new concept.  Yet extraordinary risky if you do have profit in mind, even if it is a homage or more specific a simulacrum of past artistic romanticism.  Independent fashion brands are disappearing at an alarming rate..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/01/enfants-riches-deprimes-spring-2025.html 

(A.Glass 2025)