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Saturday 9 March 2013

Fashion trends: back to 90's

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Part punk, part working class, grunge has been a recurring theme in fashion trends since the early '90s. It first crawled out from the underground in the late '80s in response to financial hardship, a backlash to capitalism and the emergence of regional rock music.

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Fashion trends: back to 90's. Versace

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Fashion trends: back to 90's. Versace

The Seatde-born fashion trends style was popularized by front men like Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
(his tortured by fame look included moth eaten sweaters, beat-up Chuck Taylor sneakers and shredded denim) and Pearl Jams Eddie Vedder (fond of oversized plaid shirts paired with baggy cut-offs and combat boots). Courtney Love, lead singer of Hole and Gobain's wife, brought her version of burnout beauty into the spotlight with baby-doll dresses, smudged eyeliner and slashes of red lipstick. Anti-fashion went mainstream and Gen Xers everywhere started Goodwill hunting.

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen. Fashion trends
Designers began to take notice of this fashion trends. Marc Jacobs based his Spring 1993 collection for Perry Ellis on this surprisingly influential slacker style but gave it a decadent twist. Sleeveless flannel shirts were produced in luxurious silk, thermal tops were woven in cashmere and Chuck Taylors debuted in Duchesse silk. Then there was the skilful layering: Full-length granny-floral
dresses were worn over striped tops, flowy skirts were left open to reveal hot pants underneath and crop tops were worn over T-shirts and under button -ups.

Fashion trends: back to 90's
Fashion trends: back to 90's. Chanel

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The media were smitten and Jacobs won the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year Award but the collection didn't sell well. The king and queen of grunge—Cobain and Love— were sent pieces from the collection, which they later burned. In a 2010 interview with Womcm ftfear Daily \ Love shed some light on this fiery situation: "We were punkers—we didn't like that kind of thing."

Three-figure price tags and thrift store-inspired threads weren't a match made in retail heaven back then, but now luxury has been redefined. This season, designers including Phillip Lim, Dries Van Noten and Henry Holland are hoping to cash in on their tidier interpretations of' 90s grunge fashion trends. Today's look is about juxtaposing luxe with lowbrow, masculine with feminine and construction with dcconstruction.

Fashion trends: back to 90's. Nicole Farhi

Its artfully messy with an underlying polish. Van Noten put a soft spin on it, showing plaids in taffeta, organza, mousse line and lame. His other spring standouts included oversized sheer button-down shirts (perfect for layering) and white oblong sunnies similar to the ones Cobain wore. Rochas continued this glam grunge fashion trends theme with vintage-inspired slip dresses (hello, Courtney), while Henry Holland churned out lace and sheer-edged dresses that referenced the '90s in hues much deeper than his usual bright, bold mix.

5.1 Phillip Lain showed bare midriffs, distressed denim, tie-front skirts that gave the illusion of a flannel shirt around the waist, and tough sandals that channelled Doc Martens, while Acne designer Jonny. Johans son paired sleeveless noveltytees with parachute skirts held together with utility belts.
Grunge, in all its haute hybrids, is showing no sign of social alienation this time around.

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Fashion trends: back to 90's. Marc Jacobs
The spring fashion trends campaigns are high on hobo-meets hipster chic: Jacobs, the original guru of grunge, set his latest Marc by Marc Jacobs ads in a gritty, graffiti covered bathroom and small alleyway, proving that loud colour, chaos and clashing prints are the new must-haves. Somewhere, Kurt Cobain is flipping us the bird.D