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

 

"...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.  With monuments built, outlasting both the biology and its societal confines, to be inspirited as moments in time. 

Which as mentioned, we are very much living through a hyperreal version of bygone conservatism, and to see this, one only needs to view the plethora of young women covering up their nipples, breasts and behinds, so they can sell their cheap 'sheer' clothing via Depop, a sort of sexulaized  self censoring under the digital platforms, or AI telling us it's "inappropriate", while male nipples are ok.  When Hekmat for her latest collection, as mentioned, inspired by statues and sculptures in around around Paris, created the "boob" clutch, to be sexy and free, and yes, I'm sorry, once again, you'll need to tuck your phone away, or at least turn it off.  This is the tangible, what was once real to our grandmothers, and mothers, they weren't so uptight..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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