excerpt: Natasha Zinko. Fall 2026 - London Fashion Week

"... As we know, without condensing what it would have been like growing up in an East European country in the 1980s and 1990s, yearning for a taste of Western indulgence, while crafting with what scarce materials you had on hand.  Maybe, now in the West (and everywhere else), we are getting that taste in reverse, as inflation is chewing into everything, and you live from paycheck to paycheck, going without every two weeks after the rent is paid, with no food, bills coming in and living off a credit card, just to survive.  Can new styles, unavertable, evolve out of this social strain? 

The thrift, upcycle trend pre 2020, was a hopeful, and I use this term loosely, a liberalism effort, to tone down consumerism..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/02/natasha-zinko-fall-2026-london-fashion.html

(A.Glass 2026)