excerpt: Natasha Zinko. Spring/summer 2026 - London Fashion Week.

 

"Society is most probably already crashed, at least socially, with a transfer of ego and narcissism propelled onto social media at an insatiable rate, we could all be in the throes of burnout, while the whole world politically starts to move towards Fascism.  Yet, a counterculture remains very illusive, when we are in a worst state of affairs in relation to conflicts, wars, social upheaval, a west supported genocide onto the Palestinians via Israel, than the counterculture heyday of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, would have never allowed this to become so entrenched.  So, what's going to give to change all this?  Hard to say, and fashion notoriously was able to gauge and assist in counterculture identity, at least aesthetically it may offer styles as a precursor to our 11th hour scenario.

Ukrainian born fashion designer Natasha Zinko is a Generation X'er, who, for her latest collection, is reiterating that sweet spot of the early 1990s, after growing up in the glorious 1980s.  Before we, per person, raked up tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt, we were all essentially poor, and Eastern Europe, was the epicenter of the Western knockoffs, more so the underground rave culture, where you would purchase for $20USD, a strange looking 'ADIDAS' jacket, which was made within a small sweatshop in Prague, Czechoslovakia, before it became the Czech Republic, as Russia's dominance over Eastern Europe started to fold..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/09/natasha-zinko-springsummer-2026-london.html