Psychedelic Gucci Fabric · Spring Summer 2014 Fashion Show

Gucci Spring Summer 2014 Fashion Show, Milan.

Forty-five minutes after thoroughly sucking on your LSD micro tabs or chomping down on acid-drenched gummy bears, you begin to see glimmering fractal patterns swimming into your existence. These streaming projections of intriguingly complex geometry seamlessly spill into your consciousness like some sort of weird, futuristically familiar techno-organic liquid. These omnipresent, neon-colored acidic patterns are seen both internally and externally; whether they are being displayed on the opaquely pink-vermillion screen behind your closed eyelids, or on the titillating surfaces of walls, grass, trees and people's skin. These infinity-containing fractal microcosms invite you to dive into and explore their never-ending mystery. Also available, are the options of gazing into them in hypnotic befuddlement, inevitably losing yourself in a cosmic trance, or to playfully intermingle with them with the sounds of your giggles. The possibilities are endless as you can obviously transform them with your magic wand-like acid fingers, don't forget... don't forget... don't forget.

Meditatively flashing back into these trips I began to envision and contemplate examples of where in our world these psychedelically-inspired patterns are typically found. The most obvious examples include, visionary art (such as the artwork of Amanda Sage, Alex Grey, Android Jones and Pablo Amaringo), glyphs of ancient languages, kaleidoscopic, stained-glass Medieval cathedral windows, Middle-Eastern and Oriental rugs, geometric Islamic art, design and architecture, Tibetan and Shipibo-flavored tapestries, yantras, mandalas, etc. And then, interestingly, a more non-conventional example electrified my brain: Haute Coutre. 

Geometric Islamic tile work at the Alcázar of Seville.

The French term, Haute Coutre, literally translates over into English as high dressmaking, high sewing or high fashion. The rare and unusual fabrics are exotically threaded together with incredible attention to detail, and the resulting colors and patterns produce tiny, gleaming, blinding glares especially when put into motion, in a strutting, well-lit fashion-show, for example. I spent the past week analyzing the psychedelic aspects of last year's Spring Summer 2014 fashion shows. The obvious realization was apparent: when you mix in the ridiculousness of paradigm-shattering fashion with exotic, glimmering fabrics, high-tech style, perfect lighting, trance-like music, and graceful goddess-like models into the equation you have yourself a psychedelic spectacle. (Although, grossly sub-psychedelic by DMT/ psilocybin standards.) It makes me think what the eccentric creative directors of these world-renowned fashion houses were tripping on when they came up with these futuristic fashion concepts. Any ideas?

I will start you off with Gucci's Spring Summer 2014 Fashion Show that happened at last year's Milan Fashion Week. It gives you a fairly accurate depiction of what I'm talking about. Notice the organic-techno look of many of these glimmering fabrics. At times, if you concentrate, it almost feels as if you're forty-five minutes into your trip. 

I will post photos of my visit to the Jean Paul-Gaultier exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum next week, along with a Gaultier fashion show or two. The week after the next I'll post the most psychedelic fashion show in the history of fashion. So be on the look-out, but for now, (as always is for now), zoom in and enjoy the subtle visions of the complex, microcosmic acid wonderland. 

PEACE.