It is often said that fashion is a cycle, and every once in a while the once-popular will turn red again.
And when it comes to the popularity of the 1920s, it seems that this sentence has been surprisingly fulfilled, fashion is a circle, going around, the popularity of 2022 is back to the millennium era of twenty years ago, and it is soon the season of exposing arms and legs, who is not yet a millennial hot girl!
Speaking of the starting point of the twentieth century Y2K re-sweeping the world, we have to mention BLC PINK's "How you like that", bright hair color plus heavy eye makeup, cold background, Y2K inner flavor will come out at once!
So the question is, what is this Y2K that sounds very advanced and looks cool?
In fact, Y2K originally had nothing to do with fashion, but rather a computer calculation program dealing with the bug on the date - "Millennium Bug".
Y-Year,
2-2,
K-Kilo,
Y2K = 2000
In 2000, due to the lack of computer technology, the two decimal numbers could not continue to distinguish the date of 2000 AD and beyond, which also led to the technical paralysis of all walks of life, causing great panic. This global computer event gives Y2K itself a sense of mechanical eerie beauty and uncontrollable disorder, while also vividly displaying the unknown and curiosity of millennials about future technologies. The aesthetics of Y2K, which was formed as a result, were full of futurism, surrealism and a sense of technology, which truly reflected the bold ideas and beautiful fantasies of people in that period for the future.
Y2K originated
When Y2K began to spread from the field of technology to the field of fashion, Y2K, which became an independent design style, gradually began to carry more human emotions. The common sentiments of the 1990s and 21st centuries have been amplified and spread in design: experiencing the peak of the Internet bubble, feeling the alternation of the old and new eras, full of hopes for the future, and uneasiness.
The Y2K style has very distinctive characteristics in terms of material. Metal materials, transparent PVC, fluorescent colors and other textures are tougher, more reflective materials are used in clothing, presenting high-tech visual elements, used to depict the fantasies of the future world of that era: space, high speed, high technology, information, highly developed utopia.
Y2K is gradually constructed in a series of designs and products, among which, in addition to digital products, especially the fashion circle is most enthusiastic about Y2K, and it is also the main carrier that leads Y2K from a niche to the public.
The first to apply Y2K to the field of clothing was Issey Miyake. In 1995, Issey Miyake, known for his preference for woven fabrics, creatively introduced a metallic transparent long coat and skirt in Issey Miyake's Spring/Summer 1996 collection, kicking off an attempt at Y2K style.
Also at the forefront was Alexander McQueen, who, on the fall/winter 1999 runway, used LED tubes and circuit board textures as elements to bring millennials' fantasies about technology and the future to the fullest.
Also in 1999, designer John Galliano, who claimed to be "deeply inspired by The Matrix," left a signature case for his subsequent Y2K aesthetic with its sparkling patent leather, polyethylene, and cold, sharp cuts.
In the 20th century, it was Dior that brought Y2K back into the fashion world. In 2019, Dior collaborated with artist Khlong San Ki to create a visual feast of metal and sexiness, and mechanical and humanistic thinking returned to the realization of the fashion circle in Dior's retro futuristic sense.
The sexy Iron Beauty off the runway is a typical Y2K paradox, and in the face of the curvy beauty, the cold and shiny metal is a basin of cold water of desire - just as the so-called "retro futurism" itself is a contradiction, but in the contradiction and futuristic fantasy, a new aesthetic is born.
Y2K style features
The Y2K aesthetic is inseparable from several major elements: a sense of technology, bright colors and curved design. First of all, in terms of fabrics, Y2K's bold use of new fabrics has reached a level of peaking.
Christian Dior 1999
Y2K, which prefers stiff fabrics, will often give birth to a grotesque style, smooth metal fabrics, shiny PVC materials, tough and stylish while reflecting the sense of science and technology, carrying people's vision and unlimited imagination of future technology.
Issey Miyake Spring/Summer 1996
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From the perspective of color, the Y2K style not only prefers metallic colors, but also likes to use bright colors in a large area. Candy color, fluorescent color, contrast color, extreme cold and warm contrast are all characteristics of Y2K.
In the use of color, high saturation, high brightness candy color, medium and high saturation pink, blue, purple gradient, is the most Y2K style color.
It is usually supplemented by an extreme contrast between cold and warm, exuding a sweet sense of technology in the retro dream, after all, Y2K is not a pure, cold sci-fi pioneer.
Fashion is like a snake: in 2000, people rushed to life, and their designs, ideas, and collocations became a fashion twenty years later, perhaps this is what is called: "Trends are fleeting, styles are eternal."
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