ABSTRACT
The chapter explores the question of cultural recycling and patriotic remakes in contemporary Russian fashion, focusing on the case of Gosha Rubchinskiy, one of the main figures of the contemporary Russian queer culture. In the last decade, his nostalgic remixes of the Soviet-era military- and sportswear, the 1990s rave aesthetics and skateboard culture have gained a global recognition. The chapter also discusses how the new Russian camp and trash aesthetics become the meaningful elements of the language of decolonisation and resistance against the global hierarchy and cultural hegemony of the West.
