excerpt: Rick Owens. Men's Fall/Winter 2026, 2027 - Paris Fashion Week.

 

"...And the dystopian Avant-garde trend of 2000 through to 2018, of artisan styled distressed leather jackets, symmetrically cut draped tops, in all black, with its astronomical pricing, which not only priced out the buyer, but in an inflation based economy, which shows no signs of abating, also priced out the designers.  Replaced by the conglomerate funded modernist styles, which became more of a trend leading up to the 2020 pandmeic (and thereafter), and that Avant-garde coolness of a society in decline, may never be reinvigorated on the runway again, by the sheer fact, we're now all living in a Fascist dystopia, without being dressed in those dark futurist styles, as a complementing flair of societal ruin.  Can Owens continue to represent this reflective dystopic simulacra?..." 

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/rick-owens-mens-fallwinter-2026-2027.html

(A.Glass 2026)