excerpt: Vetements. Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...And they say, history doesn't repeat, it rhymes, and our curret redux is certainly jumbled up and chaotic.  With Guram's industrial, bunker like tomb the backdrop suggesting that the underground, metaphor or otherwise, could be the tactical retreat for the anti-fascists on the Left, as the Fascists are making gains not just in government but what could be the early formation of paramilitary mobs on the streets, and the internet, more social media, via a techno-fascist Elon Musk digital dominance, maybe the bunkers will have to be digital signal proof too!   And our phones, which we have adored for many decades, could now become a hindrance, if we are easily tracked, being at a protest a week back.  That's why we we wear a mask and dress all in black, the phone stays at home.

Vetements Spring/Summer 2026 affair, is certainly clad mostly in black, with full face and head masks, and enough protest to hedonic counterculture energy, to inspire even the meekest to stand up for your rights, reclaim your sexual choices, disavow  the Far Right para-mob narrative that we are degentives, and other violent derogatory language used against us, and beat them into back into oblivion.   And after the protest, removing the back clad clothing, padded vest, mask, goggles, helmet, we retreat back to our underground base, change, and the go to a 1980s synth disco party, dance, be free, and have glorious sex later on."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/vetements-springsummer-2026-paris.html