excerpt:Vetements. Spring 2027 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...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.

So, Guram's raw, urbanized setting, which has been a fixture for his recent Vetement shows, noted the Spring 2026 show was held in a disused underground shopping mall, does indeed hold a resonance to that, as discussed, Parisian dystopic ala the prophetic French adult comic Métal Hurlant of 50 years ago, credited to have influenced Ridley Scott's 1983 "Blade Runner"...."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/07/vetements-spring-2027-paris-fashion-week.html

(A.Glass 2026)