Excerpt: Courrèges. Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week.

 

"...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.  So, in retrospect André Courrèges modernist and futurist template of over 70 years ago, is probably not very appropriate when we have a unelected, billionaire and autocratic futurist trying to reignite what the 1950s futurism should have been like, if there were no countercultures/liberation movements in the years that followed, which, thankfully, did indeed change the course of oppressive conservatism.  

But, is the deconstructive, avant garde fashion the 'look' to herald in a counterculture?  Probably not, as the artisan, drapey looks of the early 2000s, which petered out by 2018, with only a handful of designers left standing, where very much apolitical..."

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

(A.Glass 2025)