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I went to celebrate the 90s at the Tate. Instead, I left feeling depressed about Britain

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08.10.2026

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The 90's: Art and Fashion exhibition at the Tate should have been a celebration of British culture - but it just made me sad.

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The highly anticipated cultural display, bookmarked in many a culture reporter's calendars for weeks, promised wall-to-wall fashion, art, photography - a certified bacchanalia of 90s nostalgia.

One which should have inspired cuddly, cosy feelings of warmth and national pride, an internal Hygge as autumn begins to tinge the leaves of London trees an ever-familiar brown.

But all it left me feeling was disappointed, but not in the collection - in the direction that Britain has gone.

The hazy days of the 1990s promised a new era. Young and old generations alike prepared their rose-tinted glasses to witness the once-in-a-lifetime experience of witnessing a new millennium being ushered........

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