excerpt: Courrèges. Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion week

 

"...Is Di Felice offering a renewed take on global warming, as an aesthetic awareness with his Spring Summer 2026 collection?  Probably not.  However, there is a metaphoric element to this collection, particular in the case of longer, and more intense summers, thus more sunlight.  Which ironically, is being caused by extended cloud cover over the Earth, within the upper atmospheres.  From global warming.  As the Earth heats up, it's also dimming, thus, trapped UV from Greenhouse gases, from the depleted ozone layer, is becoming more intense.  Hence the first part of the showing, models adorned Ultra Violet (UV) protected coverings, as the face, including the eyes, is the most exposed to the sun's UV radiation.  

And yet, paradoxically in this collection, as you would expect from Di Felice, he shows a lot of skin.  Which is very much part of Di Felice's reworking of André Courrèges modernist to the Belgium designer's postmodernist, eros orientated looks, and homage to the sexually liberated elements of the 1960s, as we moved into the delicious hedonism of the 1970s..."

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(A.Glass 2026)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/10/courreges-springsummer-2026-paris.html