Natasha Zinko. Resort 2026 - Lookbook
Although probably unrealistic, but nevertheless it would have been intriguing, I had Natasha Zinko penciled in, to replace Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga, since he has moved across to Gucci, to save Kering's falling share price (down 41% in one year!). Instead it will be Italian designer Pierpaolo Piccioli of Valentino, and couture fame who will possibly try and attempt Demna's postmodern flair to his version Balenciaga, in its odd dichotomy, it will be interesting to say the least. Regardless, Zinko obviously works best with her own deconstructive signature label flair, and her unmistakable independent rebellious nature.
The Ukrainian born designer who has been expressing her own antitheses of fashion design, via the absurd, marcbe, note the plasticsurgery inspired Spring 2025 collection, to the 'extreme' effortless styles, which a many of creative directors over the years have indeed experimented with, John Galliano comes to mind, as the epitome of postmodern fashion. Be it, his messy, just out of bed looks, throwing anything on, even if it doesn't match ethos.
Following suit, Zinko with her Resort 2026 collection, titling it to be her "Last Resort" as a play on words and aesthetical themes. And since seasonal collections are relatively meaningless in the fashion world of our topsy turvy 21st Century, in all its 11th hour turmoil. Which is truly revving up into hyper speed. It's not so much that things are changing, they are in fact, falling apart. Were those reviled postmodernists (most of them have passed on), yes the precursor for Fascist Trump's propaganda and paranoid laced 'Left Wing' purge, who didn't really exist, way back in the day onto something?
Without, picking out 60 year old philosophical quotes, maybe Zinko is, with her collection offering that messy, throw it on look, as a "Last Resort" before the human race hits a brick wall, and we are all fucked, so fuck it, or as she ambiguously eluded too, that this will be the last Resort this family will ever take, as a bedraggled, unsatisfied, and dysfunctional family return home from a vacation from hell.
There is a sleekness to Zinko's deconstructive styles, a distinction, and she is no doubt a talented designer and very unique one at that, which in turn offers a quirky charm soley needed in a conglomerate run and maybe soon-to-be corporatism fashion world (and you ask, which luxury fashion brand will create work uniforms, for Trump's work camps? Sarc on, or not?).
So, revel in the dysfunction, the quirky, the neurodivergent, and the backward. Maybe that is our counterculture, as we reverse engineer the chaos, and not care what anyone thinks. Just wear what feels comfortable, as we all retreat from the world.
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(A.Glass 2025)
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