Excerpt: Rick Owens. Fall/Winter 2026 womens - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...And yes, we all could be at that 11th hour, with global fascism now in overdrive, as the late comedian George Carlin once said, fascism will not come with jackboots, but rather with 'smiling face t-shirts and sneakers', he was, in a visualized forbearing, correct.  With wars, that are now in line with the Far Right version of Total War, countries, namely Israel and America, are resorting to annihilation to change regimes, gone are the days of post-neoconservative surgical strikes of the George Bush era.  Even scarier, with Christian/Judean end-of-world old testament rhetoric, via U.S and Israeli officials controlling their war machines, we can very well ask the questions.  Are we getting closer to nuclear war?  More importantly; how did we let this happen?

And what is equally alarming, which ties in within these potent questions, and one has to be honest, as that we lack a counterculture buffer for our reactive protests against fascism, in other words, what is happening today globally is bad, if not worse than what it was in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s at the height of the Cold War and Far Right incursions into our lives..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/03/rick-owens-fallwinter-2026-womens-paris.html  

(A.Glass 2026)