The "return to the familiar" — re-anchoring

— has now been documented across the U.S., India, Europe, and the Middle East. Tradition, continuity, rootedness, craft, narrative-over-spectacle. Consumers spending less wildly and more deliberately. The fashion industry calls it "clarity after chaos." The cultural-trend industry calls it "Trend 28 of 33." *No one is naming the obvious mirror: the same months in which capital and AI and war have grown to incomprehensible scale are the months in which everyone is reaching for what is small, slow ...