Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has unveiled a new campaign promoting a series of roughed up sneakers with an eye-watering price tag, and the internet has thoughts.
When Tora Northman, 23, scrolls through Instagram, as she does multiple times a day, she often sees a picture of Gwyneth Paltrow attending the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards in a burgundy velvet Gucci trouser suit in her feed. Sometimes a friend will have posted it. Other times, it has come from one of the 1990s- and Y2K-theme pages that have proliferated online, including @early2000sbabes, @90sanxiety, @90smilk and @literally.iconic, the owner of which claims, in the account's bio, to have been "raised by paris and britney."
The icons and fashions of the fin de siecle are objects of fascination for those who didn’t experience them the first time around. Here’s what they say about why.