excerpt: David Koma. Fall 2026 - lookbook

 

"Is hedonism the continuation of a counter culture?  Or a tandem part of counterculture?  And did we really hold back centralist neoliberalism with this well into the 1980s, thanks to the glorious 1970s?  Then Gen X (and Y) blew sexuality up in the 1990s to date, from collapsed social networks replaced by staring at mobile phones, all within their collective anxiety.  The sociological idea inserted here, is that we maybe indeed emulating a variant of the 1970s as I write this, sans the libreational overflow from the 1960s.  In other words we are in a state of social, political, environmental decline without a counterculture buffer, that very well may stop all of us from falling into the annihilating abyss.  And can we, deep in our psyches conjure it back?..."

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From:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/03/david-koma-fall-2026-lookbook.html 

(A.Glass 2026)