With “THE ARCHIVE”, ZARA once again confuses attitude with silence. Between muted colors and controlled silhouettes, it reveals no new aesthetic – only the perfection of fatigue.
Commentary
The Archive of Fatigue
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Commentary
The Pose of Enlightenment
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Wokeness was once an awakening; today it serves as a backdrop. The line between moral gesture and aesthetic reflex, between attitude and staging, has almost vanished. What remains when awareness...
Commentary
Gucci’s Seventh Quarter of Decline
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The myth is fading. Once a synonym for flamboyance and commercial triumph, Gucci now finds itself in a deeper crisis than any of its major rivals. The era of endless growth is over — and with it the...
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The Aesthetics of Simulation
Part 3/3
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After the faces have vanished and the avatars have risen, the final step follows: fashion detaches itself from the human being. What began as a technical advance becomes a cultural turning point...
INTERVIEW
August Zirner on Art, Origins, and the Life In Between
Part 1/6
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In the first part of the conversation with August Zirner, the actor speaks about art as responsibility, the prejudice of narcissism, musical thinking in speech – and why language and breath share the...