excerpt: Blumarine. Pre-Fall 2026 - Lookbook

 

"David Koma's hedonic overdrive continues on for Blumarine, clearly inserting his liberating stylizations from his own signature label, onto the mid 1970s Italian brand, which did indeed capture the renewed bohemian chic of the sybaritic that very much encapsulated the 70s sexual counterculture well into the 1980s.  And despite the galvanization of Generation Z, which is fighting fascism breaking out everywhere around the world, more so in America under Donald Trump's 'Make America Great Again' obsession, with its mix of paleolibertarianism and Far right ideology, Gen Z have the battle from hell on their hands.  And unfortunately, they do not have a counterculture to buffer or fall back on..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/bluemaine-pre-fall-2026-lookbook.html

(A.Glass 2026)