excerpt: Blumarine. Pre-Fall 2026 - Lookbook

 "...So, the question is; can the past counterculture years offer some inspiration to fill that void?  At least an idea of how can can outlast the Far Right, but returning a subversive counterculture base. Be it lifestyles that are antithetical to the order, and not just the day at a protest.  But, the night after.  Can it be done?  Considering over 40 years of 1960s, 1970s and 1980s subversion, has literally be wiped from the history books.  As the boomers begin to leave this realm, and Gen X and Y, have been a disaster of complicity to proto-Fascism (let's be honest here), once again can Gen Z, and it's transgenerational comrades reverse the course?   And can a renewed sexuality assist?

Koma has cited the late photographer Helmut Newton darker elements of eroticism, whilst invoking a Venetian backdrop, to which Koma has been influenced for his Pre-Fall 2026 lookbook for Blumarine..."

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

(A.Glass 2026)