w/e, they knew they weren't gonna be eternal even in their time, they just happened to be a thing when I was a teen so they stick out to me as weird ephemera. I'm still weirdly precious about normcore tho.. I could talk about it's effect on trans girl fashion generally but zzz
The gay ass Rick Owens + Adidas + quasi ironic sadboiis shit
Seapunk is dead, firmly, whose corpse was devoured during the advent of vaporwave, witch house suffering a similar fate except to LA millenials*
And the only records of this are like, blogspots and huffpo articles
(E.g. AnCo, Bergman, Hesse) the juxtaposition of normie fashion and hipster taste was the point. The normcore revival of last year was just "Target's clothes lowk good?" and lasted for a month.
Health Goth is relegated to the eternal goth aesthetic + working out instead of
City party scene -> posted to a fashion blog -> party scene -> blog -> /fa/ -> tumblr -> blog -> -> fashion designer -> news outlet
Nd the conversations on the blogs is where the lore happened, normcore wasn't just Uniqlo pants and Gap top, it was doing that but also being familiar w/ hipster canon
Like technically all these still exist but w/o the blogosphere it's basically nothing, even the parasitic nature of tumblr fashion blogs nd /fa/ allowed for momentum and experimentation within microtrends
Like part of the fun of microtrends was the evolution of like:
The book is definitely more empathetic towards Bateman which I think is a bit silly, it was good that Heron "saved" Jean from being in love w/ Bateman in the adaptation
I think it's just Crash (1996) although Bad Influence (1992) is p homoerotic, if nothing else bcuz it's sexy watching a guy who is evil (Rob Lowe) corrupt a pathetic small person (James Spader) into also becoming evil
