Excerpt: David Koma. Resort 2025 - Lookbook

 

"After David Koma's Blumarine debut at Milan Fashion Week, which pushed his branding of newfound hedonism through the roof.  Touching upon that swing point, between the 1960s counterculture, sexual liberation, and the beginning of the 1970s, when modernism, bohemian chic, and intensified hedonism merged and ramped up to counterculture highs.  Whitst at the same time, maintaining his own signature label with very much the said themes. 

For his Resort 2026 collection, Koma has studied the 2007 "Mad Men" series and its aesthetical ethos, be it that turning point from 1950s rigidity into 1960s counterculture expectations, when the experimental and risqué collided, in art, fashion and lifestyles and if you know the series, you'll know that the clash that did occur when 50s patriarchal expectations began to come undone, no pun.  And the pop-art of the late Mel Ramos, who passed away in 2017, was also a point of inspiration for Koma's latest collection, more so from one particular painting, which is Ramos's "Beaver Shot" (1966), of a pop-art cartoonish drawn woman posing with her verticle black and white striped, mini skirt, short sleeve one piece, overlaid with magnified insert (over her pelvis), as though you have x-ray vision, and are able to see her underwear.  Sexist?..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/david-koma-resort-2025-lookbook.html