The design style is a circle, and the circle can always be circled back. When you are still stuck in the minimalist style, the new imitation style, the glass imitation style, Y2K aesthetics, has quietly become the new darling of the design circle.
What is Y2K?
Y2K全称：【Y=Year】【2=2】【K=Kilo】
A culture that originated as the "millennium bug problem" (a global computer event) and became popular around 1995 to 2004. Therefore, Y2K means the year 2000, also known as the millennium. At the time, this aesthetic style encompassed fashion, design, music and furniture, shining with technological optimism.
| Y2K Aesthetic Design | Y2K aesthetic design
Whether it is from the ideology, spiritual core, or external aesthetic characteristics, we can glimpse the traces of Y2K aesthetics from all aspects.
| Hi Tea Millennium Style Promotional Poster
| Louis Vuitton Renovation - Tokyo Ginza JP (2021)
Y2K style features
Psychedelic retro futuristic
Millennials often make the impression of the public: they have attitudes, ideas, and a particularly clear idea of themselves and trends. Millennial style also came into being, its design language, seeking the fullest of self-personality, the notable characteristics are independence, pluralism, creativity, vitality...
With bold color schemes, flamboyant accessories and futuristic visual effects, Y2K's popularity is not unfounded, it fills the gap in people's hearts in fashion, and soothes people's anxious hearts.
| LV 2019 Runway
Y2K aesthetic space
Set off a retro futuristic wave
In the post-epidemic era, people are more eager to live and feel different from the fast-paced lifestyles, and are more keen to create retro moods in the home space and evoke the deepest time mark in their hearts.
| Wall material - PROXIMA rock slab series - latte P1227OX01N
| Flooring material - PROXIMA marble series - Adriatic P6012AD03
For millennials who pursue both appearance and quality, the sense of quality and design can better reflect the taste, and the simple and simple fashion attitude also gives space to show more unique aesthetics of themselves.
| Ground material - PROXIMA rock slab series - Titian P1227CP03N
The trend is not one-way, the smooth sense of lines, low-saturation colors and a large amount of white space, in the retroism of the integration of various trend styles of Y2K aesthetics to more inclusive, more diverse perspectives to interpret the style of space.
| Flooring material - PROXIMA antique series - Ferrara 451HH01
| Floor material - PROXIMA antique series - Pisa P80IN03M
Y2K aesthetics emphasize the sense of technology and the utopian spirit of futurism, natural textures and materials, as if to integrate the past and the future, all full of Y2K style unique psychedelic, retro and futuristic.
| Wall material - PROXIMA rock slab series - Raphael P1227FS01N
| Ground material - PROXIMA rock slab series - Raphael P1227FS02N
Fashion is fleeting, but style is timeless, and no matter how times change, there will always be its unique charm. People's pursuit of self is also always common. PROXIMA uses its understanding of trends to travel to the forefront of fashion and create a personality space for young people to like.