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

(Images:  The Impression, Rain.  2024) 

"...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, including their Creative Directors in a pre and post cologremetate world of fashion, which has been caved up between the stock price of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Kering.  The scraps are far and few between, as China the luxury buyer for the West is falling into a recessing and the costs of producing a garment in a Climate Changing world are now becoming unattainable within its practicality.

Levy held his Enfants Riches Déprimés Spring 2025 collection at Sotheby's Paris, as a kind of Demna of Balenciaga hyperreal fame offer to the antifashion ethos, reflecting the exclusivity theory of Levy's brand name.  Does indeed work as a artistic and theatrical concept, and the styles for Enfants Riches Déprimés are undoubtedly improving, with some of the well crafted and styled looks to date drawing influences from the plethora of Japanese Street style looks from the last Five decades. 

Enfants Riches Déprimés t-shirts begin at $500+, with leather jackets peaking out at $7,500 if you wish to be part of Levy's 'protest' of pricing out everyone."

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

(A.Glass 2025)