idle gaze 073: satire, the great cultural sedative.
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idle gaze 073: satire, the great cultural sedative.
From Balenciaga’s tongue-in-cheek €2,000 IKEA FRAKTA shopping bag dupes to e-commerce platform Ssense’s self-deprecating takes on the absurdity of fashion subculture elitism, the runway sometimes feels reduced to one big meme generator.
idle gaze 073: satire, the great cultural sedative.
Meaning culture gets constantly recycled rather than having a finite lifecycle