I haven't ranted
about fashion things for a while now because nothing has completely
blown me away or inspired a rant. Until now.
90s fashion.
I'm sure everyone
in the fashion world has been noticing all the studs, purple dyed
hair, and upside down crosses that are trending. That which people
call “grunge” (I've ranted about it before: here). I'm all for it. It's modified
grunge per say, “neo-grunge” as I've heard it called. But what
has been irking me lately is that this return to grunge style has
been beginning to return a lot of other fashion collections to the
90s. Or at least, they say that the 90s are their inspiration.
I need to drop a
TOO SOON here. Yes, I am one of those kids who grew up in the 90s who
misses the cartoons, the Disney channel original movies, and eating
Flinstones Push-pops at the park. I am learning to accept that the
90s weren't actually ten years ago.
The 90s I remember
are Spice Girls and Clueless. These are the 90s clothes that we saw in mass media. They were
loud and tacky and we loved them. There was also the opposite side of bubblegum pop-culture: Nirvana (if we're talking grunge).
And these styles are kind of
coming back. Fashion looks back most of the time. Designers are
inspired by Marie Antionette, Victorian architecture, their
homelands, etc. Fashion is beginning to evolve by repeating itself.
And that's okay... but looking back at the 90s seems TOO SOON to me.
Honestly, if they keep looking back to an era that is within the last
20 years, what are they going to look back to next? Last year?
Just imagine... a
collection next year inspired by last year's take on 90s fashion. Not
ok. We need more innovation. Remember Zenon: Girl of the 21st
Century? That was the future to 90s kids. (American Apparel has taken that route so far... tight spandex.) We should all be wearing our hair in pigtails on top of our
heads, stretchy chrome boots, and fabrics should be entirely synthetic-based by now.
Moral of the story is... let's look towards the future and not to the past.
