"...Guram, once again, and it can be said, within the realm of feigned reflections of celebrity-dom, has offered to the masses, a degree of groundedness, or be it, sensibilities via Vetements. That beneath the digitized expectations of three generations, unfortunately that also means Gen Z, with Gen Y and X being the instigators, was the greatest conjob in living history. That everyone could be a star on a 7" screen, and the hyperreal, with its corporatism slanted wars, genocide/s and Trumpist fascism has all but been normalised. A long time fear of speculative science fiction writers of the 1960s and 1970s, if the counterculture proponents drop the ball, and the lurking, rebranded authoritarianism picks it up, we're in trouble. And this, as a sociological standard, 'ball drop' occurred in the 1990s, to which, ironically, it was the French writers and comic book artists that laid down those exact dystopian fears, two decades earlier..."___
Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/07/vetements-spring-2027-paris-fashion-week.html
(A.Glass 2026)
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