except: Simon Miller Fall, Winter 2025/2026 - Los Angeles

 

"Are we all yearning for a counterculture to arrive?  Has society flattened out so much, that it feels like a crash, but hasn't crashed?  A cold war that is not a cold war, and we have a proto-fascist President 2.0, rewriting the American constitution.  And unfortunately, it is still all about stability over change, so no real-time revolutionary aesthetics just as yet.  But, in the meantime can we enjoy Chelsea Hansford's redefining of the glorious hedonism of the 1970s?  Even though it might evoke a wanton nostalgia, if is one so inclined to study their transgenerational timeline, why not pay homage.

And of course Hansford does just that, after taking over the Simon Miller brand from its creators Daniel Corrigan and Jake Sargent in 2016, relocating to Los Angeles in 2018, from New York, and settling down with her husband within the L.A. urban sprawl, whilst being inspired by the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s aesthetic, has been a work in progress.  Essentially fusing those three decades of rebellious tinged attire, despite it being a commercial venture has been no easy task, considering the residual pandering of bygone eras, we can blame Gen X for this, in our oddball simulacrum digitalized world..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/08/simon-miller-fall-winter-20252026-los.html 

Pre-Fall 2026 review soon.