excerpt: Courrèges. Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion week

 

"In 1967, the late André Courrèges, who was the fashion industry, at the time, stalwart futurist, modernist designer, released his "Couture Future" line, which was intended to up the ante of his stylizations due to the pelotha of knock offs of his signature label.  Also, of the same year, climatologists Syukuro Manabe and Richard Wetherald created the first computer modeling that successfully predicted human based emissions from Co2, will lead to a 2% increase in global warming.  Fast forward to 2025, Europe is facing its fourth consecutive year of heatwaves, and Courrèges creative director Nicolas Di Felice has titled his latest collection, "Blinded by the Sun".

Is Di Felice offering a renewed take on global warming, as an aesthetic awareness with his Spring Summer 2026 collection?  Probably not.  However, there is a metaphoric element to this collection, particular in the case of longer, and more intense summers, thus more sunlight.  Which ironically, is being caused by extended cloud cover over the Earth, within the upper atmospheres.  From global warming.  As the Earth heats up, it's also dimming, thus, trapped UV from Greenhouse gases, from the depleted ozone layer, is becoming more intense.  Hence the first part of the showing, models adorned Ultra Violet (UV) protected coverings, as the face, including the eyes, is the most exposed to the sun's UV radiation..."

(A.Glass 2026)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/10/courreges-springsummer-2026-paris.html

Fall 2026 review soon.