Excerpt: Cult Gaia. Fall/Winter 2025/2026 - Lookbook

 

"Clothing, and style as a way of relaxing into oneself, and feeling safe.  Better still, when it's effortless and nonchalant.  But, there is a caveat, it is difficult, particularly if one is entrapped materialistically trying to feel grounded, and then beaming it all back to yourself, like a rapid fire mirror of deception, via the billions of digitized, replayed impulses, yes, through your 'smart' phone.   So, how do we avoid, or balance this dysregulating affect?  Simple, as a start, turn off your phone, and just use the mirror, and dress with ease.

And Jasmin Larian Hekmat, of her label Cult Gaia, with all its 1970s and 1980s hedonistic charm, can show you how it's done, or at least inspire you to loosen up the shackles, sans the shock value, of new found conservatism which has, unfortunately entrenched itself over two decades, even if we don't want to admit, my goodness we're all at an aesthetical 11th hour.  And for her Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 collection, Hekmat has absorbed the artistic and sculpture resonation of Paris, in all of its paradoxical and cultural exuberance, to be that statement through the eras of the rise and fall of society, human beings, and culture..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/08/cult-gaia-fallwinter-20252026-lookbook.html