excerpt: Enfants Riches Déprimés. Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...And it must be reminded that the counterculture years continued on throughout 1980s, ending pretty much when Gen X turn 20 in the early 1990s, and started trying to capitalize everything with wayward ambitious, and then got sucked back into the Middle Class in the 2000s, disappearing with mortgages into suburbia.  And while the late born "Boomers" may now be in their 60s and 70s, the ones that are still alive,  still have a some fascinating stories to tell, more so, if they attended the famed New York City "Area" nightclub of the early to mid 1980s.

Levy's Spring/Summer 2026 collection very much does have that tailored Area nightclub feel to it, please refer to an amazing book called "Area: 1983–1987" (2015) by Eric Goode and Jennifer Goode, and you'll see why.  Levy's post punk, new romantic, gothic fusion is so beautifully defined, inside a Rive Gauche apartment, where Parisian Bohemianism thrived, and the merging of accentuated hedonism, only magnified levy's romanticism.  Or can we call it an aesthetical conjuring? 

If so, we should be gentle in releasing the spirits of the past, may they offer us some prophetic inspiration.  Maybe even some meaning, in our soon-to-be post digital world."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/10/enfants-riches-deprimes-springsummer.html