The ’90s are back.
Slip dresses. Tiny sunglasses. Barely-there makeup. White singlets. Low-rise denim. Messy hair. The off-duty model who looks like she hasn't tried particularly hard and, annoyingly, looks incredible.
We love it.
But somewhere in the revival, another distinctly ’90s aesthetic has started creeping back in too: heroin chic.
Extremely thin bodies are appearing more frequently across fashion, celebrity culture and our feeds, after years in which beauty standards seemed to be slowly expanding.
And perhaps the strangest part isn't that thin is fashionable again.
It's that women's bodies are still fashionable at all.
We've watched the ideal move from thin, to athletic, to curvy, to slim-thick, to the BBL, to the Pilates body and now seemingly back towards ultra thin.
That's quite a lot of renovating for one human body.
Fashion is supposed to change. That's the fun of it.
So by all means, bring back Carolyn Bessette minimalism. Bring back the slip dress. Bring back the supermodel airport outfit and the slightly smudged eyeliner.
But perhaps we can leave behind the idea that a woman's body needs to match the decade she's dressing like.
The ’90s aesthetic?
Yes please.
The ’90s body standard?
We can probably leave that one in the archive.
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