There is a small percentage of my job that is based almost entirely on fearmongering. That is, I will see the small beginnings of a trend – like the resurrection of the – and make several outsized statements about its imminent return, as if forcing a seed to bloom before it’s had enough time to gestate. This once caused a millennial woman on TikTok to weep in a that has now amassed more than 4.
2 million views. It helps, of course, that people seem to be both horrified at the past and fascinated by their own feelings of nostalgia. That might also explain why the so-called skinny jean comeback has been so heavily scrutinised online, in spite of Depop searches for increasing 45 per cent month-on-month over the past year alone.
The “Brace Yourselves!” headlines I so often write are applicable to nearly every Topshop item that bore Kate Moss’s name between the years of 2007 and 2010: among them , and . I recently scrolled through a selection of those pieces on eBay and I was struck not by all the tight-fitting trousers – I have enough heterosexual friends who are over the age of 30 – but a mandarin-collared military blazer with braided embroideries across its front. It was the same sort of style that emerged in and ’s recent presentations and on the grid of an “ ” I follow on Instagram who I think always looks good.
(I recently showed that person’s account to a Parisian stylist who squinted a bit and said “she’s so London” in a register that hovered s.
