Excerpt: Chloé. Resort 2026 - lookbook

 

"As Chemena Kamali, moves between the 1970s hedonic boho chic, to the 1980s eros charged power suits to keep the Chloé's accentuated stylization of the said era's alive and well in its possible return, at least in some form of overthrowing, we'll say aesthetically at this point in time, our hyperreal 1950s redux, of burnt out Gen Xers, mortgage markets, expansive suburbia and Middle Class gentrification.  Yes, pretty much a society in decline without a counterculture to juice things up a bit, at least offer an alternative to the social collapse, and we'll take anything on the dissident menu.  When proto-Fascism and Far Right governments are forcing on us their stability over change ethos, which as we all know is running the show (without any opposition), no matter how much it's fucking everything up.  And of course Kamali is not portraying a visualized protest song with her Chloé collections, but we can romanticize on the possibility.  Can't we?..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/chloe-resort-2026-lookbook.html