Are the 90's back?

The 90's fashion, with synthetic fabrics; pleather; machine sewn sequins & machine made lace; animal prints & harsh color combinations, looked trashy then & it does now!

This trash was given some interesting interpretations by current designers. As a matter of fact, it can actually look right. Chic post 90's.

One of the elements that is used to achieve the feel & look of the 90's, is the use of "cheap" materials like Polyester & Lycra, to achieve sharp' skinny silhouettes & generally challenging fashion's traditional status symbols.

There is a distinct connection to this trashy look; a shared sense of color & shape - a flavor of the Old Bad Taste.

The designers I prefer are those who try to avoid the explicit approach of Grunge with Sex, or "cheap" as for example Velour used to be: stiff & unyielding, whereas today we have the wonderful & supple velvet which ain't cheap at all! the trashy, in this case, looks now very rich.

Some of the 90's designers were lumped together & tagged as "Deconstructionists" & they were quite radical.

Martin Margiela from Maison Margiela was one of them, deconstructing her garments & shifting radically fashion's poles.

Turning jackets inside out to expose seams & using unexpected synthetics for luxury garments.

All this was a completely new notion.

Marithe' & Francois Girbaud were also some of those pioneers who took Techno Jersey fabrics from Active wear into High Fashion.

It was a cultural rebellion as implied by the name, deconstructing garments & ripping up the Rule Book of decades.

Lena Kvadrat from Art Point in Vienna, is taking it into modern, updated & well designed new looks.

Fishermen nets are inserted cleverly or layering full garments; Zippers are unexpectedly tearing apart collars to open up a neckline;Pockets which are zipped off & turn into Bags; Long coats turn into short jackets.

That which felt & looked shocking in that era is now back with a force, without repeating the exact past recipe.

The cake must taste differently & it does!