excerpt: Valentino. Spring/Summer 2026 - Milan Fashion Week

 

"...Michele, despite the said squeeze between creativity and profits, has always stood his ground with being soical aware, pleading for fashion to slow down during the pandemic, and now with his debut for Valentino, he titled the show as "FIREFLIES", in homage to the late Italian director Paolo Pasolini, that they represent a "glimmer" with the "darkness of ruling fascism" during the 1940s.  And the Italian should know, as Benito Mussolini Fascism, as been reinvigorated under Trump 2.0 and most of Europe, with the Centre Right governments of the world, one-by-one are all leaning towards proto Fascism to full blown Fascism, mixed with capitalism's evil twin, corporatism.  Yes, globally, we are in trouble, and we do need light to guard us out.  And it very well might be Gen Z who will lead the charge, with a massive challenge ahead of them, and we all can lend a hand, a join the chorus.  

Yet, things do look a somewhat back to front, with 20 year olds now rebellion against decades of Middle Class complacency (not the 'boomers', blame Gen X and Y), stagnation and greed, where it was all about stability over change, the counterculture we await, is still elusive under the digital umbrella..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/valentino-springsummer-2026-milan.html