Excerpt: Saint Laurent. Fall/Winter 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...And as a generalized critique or observation that is of Generation X (now in their Fifties), through its rigidness and confusion, has recopied the Babies Boomers parents, with a fervent desire for that redux Middle Class existence, has inadvertently reinstated 1950s esque conservatism, which is now morphing into the Far Right globally.  And we are so in need of a counterculture, before Elon Musk (an oddball Gen Xer, with a lot of cash), in his personal crusade, attempts to rub it out all together.  And we have no idea where and when this liberated dissonance will come from, so the rule of thumb in this philosophical/historic viewpoint is; that it will seem like it was always there (our renewed counterculture), or not at all.

Fashion has consistently offered that rebellious fixture, as designers search through decades of trends, to source what could define the aesthetics for a year ahead, from modernism, to avant-garde and experimental postmodern looks, fashion refuses to tow the line, despite the conglomerates bearing down on the fashion industry, it is by definition the epitome of rebellion, of course before conformity sets in.  Individual styles and the fluidity to which they are worn, was very much Yve Saint Laurent's calling card within the sexually rampant 1970s, in its romanticized liberation to enjoy the hedonic without guilt and moral consequences...

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/04/saint-laurent-fallwinter-2025-paris.html

(A.Glass 2025)