a strange philosphy of the anti fashion fashionable of 1993

the 80s?

god, that was soooooo 10 years ago....

what?
have i stopped making sense?

maybe,but not in this sense, beacause, my current obsession is the '90s;this generaly consisting of me dancing around and making very serious faces to BritPop lovlies of 'Pulp' and 'Blur', petitoning against the cancelling of 'Friends' on channel 4, (how could you!), and debating whether i could acid-wash my mums 1992 denim shirt, and wear it without her knowing, and debating whether i could actually wear that with jeans, and then debating whether to roll the jeans up, and other further debates that go on and on and on.

and then, magically, the rambling paragraph above has bridged me onto what we all really want to talk about:

fashion.

(1995)
ok, so the '90s in the couture stakes has a pretty bad reputation, because, being humans, we always sem to pessimisticly remember the bad things rather than the fabulousness-maybe an irony to this, it being a '90s, but i'll get onto that later.its been called and dubbed, time and time again, 'the age fashion forgot'. well, i think thats terribly and utterly contadictory, beacuse surley whats on the catwalks and what peopel wear is fashion, even if it was the eqivalent of a cats regergetated felix, its still fashion. it was the age when the 'in vogue' colour was 'olive -green', catsuits where red and PVC, and shoes clunky heels weighed about 10stone.'anti-fashion' was fashionable-maybe because people had had enough of the phony glitz and glam of the 80s, maybe as pop cultures polite nod to feminism, maybe because people didnt have enough pennies in there pockets. or maybe it just was.
so, onto my 3 fashion icons of the 90s:

we had bjork, the fabulously eccentric leader of the sugarcubes, with her outrageously 90s outrageously fabulous style:

we had the fresh faced Miss. Kate Moss, with her un-deniable a la 90s andrognous beauty, but who arguably started the 'heroin chic' trend:very skinny, circles under eyes and a vampiric pallor.

and lastly, i say kurt cobain. the rebellious, grungy, un-kept symbol of the 'drugged up, cut-up teens'



so....the 90s. a place and time of many parallels, so modern, yet so undeniably back. tragic, bright, neon, scrunchies,feminism, latex.

it smelled like teen spirit.

we told you what we wanted (what we really really wanted)

and they wanted to live like the common people.