Excerpt: David Koma. Resort 2025 - Lookbook

 

"...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?

Maybe, yet at the time part of that necessity of freeing up from the oppressive, hypocritical and contradictory family values of the 1950s whilst America was teetering on the verge of Fascism, as it nearly did under Roosevelt in the 1930s.  Does it sound familiar?  And yes, we could all be going down that path once again after two decades of Middle Class mortgages and complacency, and it is has landed hard, with most of Europe now Right Wing to Far Right and Fascism alive and well within America, under Trump 2.0.  It's time for the counterculture, me thinks.   Don't you?  Does Koma?  And it may indeed be sexual. And no, we haven't' seen that in decades, because this time, it won't be resold back to us before the fact (or act).  Well, at least we may actually turn off our phones whilst having sex, and all night thereafter, maybe even the next day, and so on..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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