Excerpt: Chloé. Resort 2026 - lookbook

 "...And there is no doubt, as I have quoted numerous times from the iconic Belgium fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg, who called the sweet spot of the amorous, and that hedonistic time of the 1970s through to the mid 1980s, as the era between the contraceptive pill and AIDS, where open sexuality and freedom to sleep around and enjoy intimacy without it been beamed back to you via a digital relay i.e. your phone, now seen as an odd simulacrum of commercialised sexualisation, hidden within bedrooms.

Kamali for her Resort 2026 collection has evoked the late Karl Lagerfeld's tenue with Chloé from the 1960s through to 1983, where his exuberant Chloé powersuits offered an amorous power to the 1980s woman via the Paris Fashion Week runways, but with a darker and more Avant-garde overlay, inspired by early 80s movies that encapsulated sexual tension, such as Brian de Palma's "Dressed to Kill" (1980) and the amazing, you must see this movie, "Variety" (1983); which offers, in my opinion, an early insight into how a neurodivergent woman views sexuality..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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