excerpt: Kiko Kostadinov. Fall/Winter 2026/2027 - Paris Fashion Week.

 

"...And be it the Fanning's have sleeked up the collection, while adding their version of those distinctly capricious Kiko Kostadinov styles, with a lot more of an edgy and rugged look than previous collections.   Themed around the camouflaged bird watchers, and drawing from the late Michel Foucault's, "Panopticism", of the "watcher and the watched ", particularly relevant to the surveillance culture that has entrapped us all, and willingly or unwillingly we have subscribed to its reflection of expose and control, albeit through the 24 hour digital relays.  But, do animals know they are being watched?  More so birds?  And can humans,  in a ethologically sense, deceive itself, that they control the watched?  While holding exclusive power within this digital realm?  As deluded as that seems, it is the most seductive allure, that we are the ones with visual control.  Not the other way around.   What if we are all being watched, and don't realize it?..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/03/kiko-kostadinov-fallwinter-20262027.html 

(A.Glass 2026)