Excerpt: Saint Laurent. Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"Anthony Vaccarello maintains his epicurean impression, true to Yves Saint Laurent vision, instilled by the hedonic 1970s and 1980s, when wine, small talk, cigarettes and sex were a normalcy, for pleasure, or used to ground oneself within a shared chaos era, which, lets face it, despite it being at the height of a Cold War and thermonuclear destruction, was less anxious and depressed than we are today.  So, Vaccarello, as I have mentioned in numerous reviews of his version of Saint Laurent, is only offering a simulacrum of what once was, in reflection of our odd, hyperreal, digitalized world, and worst than the First Cold War.  Far Right to fascist Western countries, with America and Israel already gone that way, genocide and all, and misinformation rife under, yes you guessed it, techno fascists trying to play out their utopian narrative, that dissent and countercultures will not have us populate the solar system.  Crazy times, but, without a renewed counterculture, we are only pandering to to the past, until the 11th hour.

The late Yves Saint Laurent sybaritic imprint, despite the excessive opulence, was tired closely with the openness of sexual liberation, which of course is a form of dissent against the rigidity of conservatism a far cry to what it once was 55 years ago, a gay liberation was crucial for the rights of sexual orientation without the fears of persecution and prejudice..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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