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

 

"...if you are not aware, the world, politically, socially and environmentally is in turmoil, no thanks to the Far Right or a more adept term, Fascism, taking hold everywhere, and one cannot entirely blame Donald Trump for embedding it further, at least in America.  It has been steadily heading that way for nearly a decade, now it's landed, and yes, with a shock.  And if history is repeating itself, and a renewed counterculture could be upon us, the 1967 summer of love maybe delayed, when the Paris riots of 1968 set everything off, as we entered the 1970s, our summer of love, as mentioned hasn't arrived.  So, it may indeed be just riots against global Fascism, with touches of 70s hedonism, offering a counterculture liberatitive scope, that being sexual.   

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!..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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