Courrèges. Fall/Winter 2026, 2027 - Paris Fashion Week.

I was thinking about Time the other day, and whether or not it is an illusion, or a deterministic engine, that governs all of us in within its cycles of time.  Which becomes an imposing mechanism, to keep us trapped within societies automation.  And Nicolas Di Felice, as representation of André Courrèges almost timeless element of modernism from the 1960s, where time was to be understood, pritiotize and expanded a moments in time to maximise.  The counterculture postmodernists, saw the opposite, of realising that time is fragmented, chaotic and non progressive, and thus one was able to jumble up, rework and manipulate as one chooses. 

For Courrèges's Fall 2026 collection as Di Felice, has, very slightly, fallen back onto the Courrèges structural modernity, which gave the late André Courrèges his 'space age' and utopian looks, with slight moments of avant-garde, while utilizing "time" as the theme, more the 24 hour cycle.  And there is a theory, albeit pathologically stigmatizing, that women have a faster 24 hour clock then men, due to their biological cues. True?   Thus,  Di Felice portraying a chaotic, yet paradoxically controlled, hecticness for his latest runway show. 

Also note Di Felice inherent aesthetics, despite rewoking Courrèges hopeful 1960s futurism, of the future that was never was, the dilemma now, which is confronting all of us; is can a proto, of technological Fascism actually work?  As the groundwork for this is being laid down via the digital world, with some of the richest men in history, backed by global leaders, to automate the autocratic, as a utopian type society, based around moral control, without dissent and individual expression being an interference, which they fanatically believe will hinder progression.  Bless Gen Z for attempting to put in a vanguard against this techno-fascism, but for this to really work, as a global protest, we may need to throw the digital world into the trash, and slow it all down.  Can we do it?   

Di Felice clearly inserts the hedonic into his latest collection, as its counterculture cue, and dare I say, anarcho imprint of breaking free from societal expectations and its constrictions, be it time, and the burden of existing for someone else.   So, the sexual allure, and freedom of eros, and the control of exploring one's own pleasure, is onshow for his Fall 2026 collection.  

Melding modernist sensibilities, to avant-garde freedom, let's break free from the 24 hour cycle.   Bravo Di Felice! 

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(A.Glass 2026)