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

  

"...Citing for her Spring 2026 collection, that it's "important to be a mess sometimes", viewing the early 1990s as the influence, being nonchalant messy to be that inflection point to change the whole political and social construct.

Probably not the era we want to duplicate, as we may need to bypass the 1990s altogether for inspiration, as Gen Xers, and one could argue, is the reason we are in this prefabricated collapse, as a commercialised redux copy of our parents counterculture years in a strange kind of backlash, and laid down the foundation for mortgage debt, middle class expansion and netflix binge nights, while their teenage kids stare at TikTok feeds for hours on end.   But, as mentioned, the youth have not been able to muster and sustain any social defiance and/or change, and Zinko is correct, we are not seeing it in fashion.  So, her chopped up, postmodern fits, busted looks, stains, and disheveled styles is actually refreshing to see, maybe even liberating.  Case in point, I attended a protest recently and my Palestinian keffiyeh, and myself, were pepper sprayed, battling against Far right anti-immigration idiots.  I had to eventually wash it, as it was still stinging my neck and face two weeks later, yet, there appears to be a big stain on it, blood?  Point is, styled chaos ala Zinko's latest array is just that, 'I don't fucking care', and my designer pants I'll wear to death, and no, they won't go to the thrift store, they'll either go into the bin or become a rag.  

Being worn out, and washed out is the new cool." 

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(A.Glass 2025)

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