Mode in de jaren negentig

Ik word niet zo snel overmand door nostalgie maar 'From the Fax Machine to Fashion Week: Fashion in the 90s' in Harper's Bazaar geeft vanuit een aantal invalshoeken een mooi beeld van mode in de jaren negentig:

The shows were much more exclusive and even the shows in New York were not as much about celebrity. Really it was just the editors that went. There was no street style. Particularly in Europe, just editors went to shows. The funny thing was, Paris was pretty irrelevant and Milan was pretty major because Prada, Gucci and Versace were there. That was where the news came from. Saint Laurent was still at YSL and that's was like completely moribund. Chanel was important. The models were more women, there were still girls working like the Carolyn Murphys, but it wasn't the very young girls who were like 14 and 16. Overall, the shows just had a lot more spectacle. I mean Gianni Versace died in 97. Versace was super important. Gucci was super important. That's where all the trends were coming from and it was around the time that New York had just started to be at the beginning of the season— historically it had been at the end of the season until Calvin Klein changed it. Helmut Lang was a really important collection and that showed in New York. But a lot of the Parisian houses that we all think of as super iconic had not been renewed or rebooted yet—no Givenchy, no Lanvin—in the way we think of it now.