excerpt: Situationist. Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 "It has been over 6 years since I have reviewed the independent Georgian fashion brand Situationist, co-created by Irakli Rusadze and Davit Giorgadze who debuted their tailored avant-garde collection at Tbilisi Fashion Week in 2017.  Both Rusadze and Giorgadze have emphasised that Situationist, named after the late 1950s French counterculture art political movement, to be very much a political statement, in all of its Eastern European charm, as a reflection of what it means to live under oppression within Georgia.   

As mentioned numerously, the avant-garde trend of the early 2000s has pretty much ended.  Due specifically to a lot of independent designers and their labels no longer being viable to create, which for the most part the fashion industry now is almost completely conglomerate driven, with those hopeful desires of being acquired, bought out or have collaborations with major sports brands also becoming a rarity.  And the creatives of fashion over 25 years ago, have shrunk down to only handful of independent designers still standing, as Billionaire dollar holding companies like Kering and LVMH, have all but cornered the fashion industry, whilst churning through their creative directors like no tomorrow on the back of falling sales and share prices.  Which, in the end, doesn't leave an independent brand much room to move..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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