Excerpt: Balenciaga. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

"A trend that has been on and off since 2018 is the amorous styles, and since the end of the pandemic, it has been mostly on.  And if one is to sift through the last Four decades of societal trends and its history of the carnal, it is no mystery that the sexual revolution of the 1960s was one of the most significant and necessary impacts on our society than not.  Fast forward into the 2000s, and society has, in a hyperreal way, converted back to a 1950s template of that material desire for financial stability, marriages, mortgages and pragmatic spending that the 50s inspired, but it came attached with conservatism.  Yes, we are more conservative than our forbearers of the last Four decades and their hedonistic cues that were the 1970s and 1980s.  And one could argue further that the taboo under a societies restriction of sexual freedom, has lead to an extremity of modern pornoagraphy, with its commercialization of sex through the many digital marketplaces, has made it a lot more misogynistic and aggressive towards women.

Are we moving towards a renewed sexual revolution?  A new counter culture?  Is the controversial and antithesis Fashion designer Demna Gvasalia of Balenciaga fame leading the charge?  Despite an illusive counterculture which has yet to materialize, after Two decades of feigned financial stability through bloated mortgage markets and a prefabricated structured economic and society template which, although many may not want to admit, has aligned with Christian fundamentalism.  Mirroring, as mentioned, the 1950s, but with a broader commerce.  Demna's romanticism with backlash, within his artistic shock value has been seen more as a trivialisation, than any rebellious gesture.  However, the Georgian born Fashion Designer offered a hint pre show, before revealing his Spring 2025 collection at the Cour du Dôme in Paris, by saying "The time has come for fashion to have a point of view"..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/balenciaga-spring-2025-paris-fashion.html 

(A.Glass 2024)

Pre-Fall 2025 review soon.