Excerpt: Courrèges. Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week.

 

"Nicolas Di Felice continues to evoke, albeit at a steady pace, the late André Courrèges modernist template into an avant garde spectacle.  And as noted from my Courrèges Spring 2025 review, Courrèges as a label, was in name only towards the end of André Courrège's life, after he sold the brand name to Groupe Artemis.  Where it struggled to redefine itself after the famed designer passed away in 2016, with his aesthetic representation of the future we never had of its 1950s utopian dream of being set free by technology.  Courrèges in the decades that followed, have churned through creative directors like no tomorrow, with the La Cambre fashion graduate Di Felice holding the line, while slowly deconstructing Courrèges into a revamped version of his retrofitted Dystopia, that was once André Courrèges 50s esque Utopia.  

And Di Felice maybe or may not be offering a clue with his Fall 2025 collection, that as the world shifts further towards the Far Right, we may need to begin the implementation of a counterculture that appears, at this point in time, very elusive..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/03/courreges-fall-2025-paris-fashion-week.html 

(A.Glass 2025)