excerpt: Ann Demeulemeester. Pre-Fall 2026 - lookbook

 

 "...Fashion, of course also assisted, mixed with psychedelics, car trips into the unknown, and sex magic. Bohemian chic, merged with goth and witchcraft.  And for Gallici's 2nd Pre-Fall collection for Ann Demeulemeester, he has delivered such a conjuring.

And Pre-Fall 2026, is Gallici's darker, and more brooding lookbook collection to date, siding up to the mid 1970s punk, merging the more tailored looks of CBGBs NYC lower east side grit, with the late Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm Mclaren's 1950s 'Situationist' movement prints.  When major U.S. cities were falling apart, rime was skyrocking, and Russian ad America were a hair away of thermonuclear war.  High tensions, rebellion and discourse were the benchmarks.  And we defied the growing desire for structure and order, with lifestyles, still blessed by the counterculture ethos.  Even though negativity was added to the spell, you dressed teh part, with nonchalant cool. Sex, death and nuclear obliteration.   And we still held the narrative.  

A lesson, so needed today."

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(Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/ann-demeulemeester-pre-fall-2026.html  

(A.Glass 2026)