In this summer edition of Jordan Richman's TRANSMISSIONS, our columnist finds himself far from the party scene, on a "cure" at a luxury medical spa in Austria. Detoxing from a hectic season in the culture industry, during various cleansing treatments he looks back on his notes from art world galas, Lucien dinner debates, and yet another Balenciaga show (where a runway-side chat with theorist McKenzie Wark brought drollness to the brand’s Wall Street BDSM bacchanal). Swapping champagne for intravenous infusions at his lakeside retreat, Richman discovers that real culture lies within. In order to regenerate, he declares, the worlds of art and fashion may need to detox, too, trading all the "-cores" for a more nutritive suffix.