Sots Art, which emerged in the early 1970s in Moscow, was the first movement in the history of unofficial Soviet art to take its inspiration from the detested Soviet visual culture. Although it exploited symbols, objects and materials from the Soviet everyday life in its works of art, it had become clear by the mid-1970s that there was no place for the playful Sots Art in the art life of the Soviet Union.
In the 2010s, a group of young fashion designers have entered the stage in Eastern Europe; they find their inspiration from the socialist past of their countries and their style is known on the catwalks of the world as the post-Soviet aesthetic and have created collections in which the socialist past of their countries has been turned into an abundant source of inspiration and demonstrates the coping of the Eastern European culture with its complicated, often traumatically perceived history.

Photo: Stanislav Stepashko