Excerpt: Saint Laurent Resort 2026 - Lookbook

 

"...And it could be argued, that the Three decades of counterculture came to a dramatic end when most of Generation X turned Eighteen in 1989, and the Berlin Wall was torn down, and in turn Gen Xers started rejecting hedonism for new found, yet wayward, ambitions of entrepreneurialism fueled by cynicism of their "boomer" parents, while embracing globalization as a good thing, taking on all that cheap credit, as conservatism begin to lurk within their psyche, with the promise, in the decade that followed, of extend mortgage markets, DVD players in evey lounge room.  And their eventual leader, Donald Trump eyeing the White House.  

So, can we, in a transgenerational wipe, clear out the whole of the 1990s?  With a portion of the 2000s too?  Why not?  And conjoin to when we did actually had a counterculture, where analoge ruled, the differentials in our cities were clear, gentrification didn't exist, it was busted windows and graffiti, we loved sex, drinking ala cocktails, and yes cigarettes, if you were so inclined, and the ultimate protest was not to live in fear, while your new partner hands you a copy of J.G. Ballard's "Atrocity Exhibition", he meets you for coffee, and you're dressed in the said attire, you have a fantastic fuck after, you then go to anti-nuke war demo, fuck after that, and onto a club later, and yes, fuck again.

Let's abolish time, and live.  Thank you Vaccarello, for the inspiration."  

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/saint-laurent-resort-2026-lookbook.html