Moscow fashion and streetwear scene is bubbling with pop-up and concept-stores opening up every-day. Now it has become as cheap and trendy as it has never been before. Everybody is obsessed with bringing weird designers from places like Japan or Brazil to Russia, throwing a party, opening a tiny corner at one of abandoned factories and closing it in two months in order to get back to drinking.
In general tastes of young audiences are shifting from radical solutions between fussy glamour and tough underground to something more intelligent and affordable. Cheap Monday’s latest Kostume collection, Acne, Acronym and Sixpack are on my mind when I think about recent fashion events in Moscow or St Pete. Best parties take place in freshly-baked concept-stores while music festivals won’t go here without a line of local designers selling their stuff in flea-market format. For better visual comprehension of what is going on in seedy Moscow side-streets take a look at this eloquent gallery.