Edit; I’m not asking what the 90s were like because I was there. I’m thinking what the pastiche of the 90s would be like should it have a revival like the 80s one that is nothing like the real 1980s by young people that presumably only have vague ideas from magazines and music and movies to go by. Like for example if it takes off from grunge but not like it was then but like it is idealised by kids today, what would it be like? What else was a 90s thing? Boy bands and indie pop mixed together on MTV? Hardcore techno and jungle/dnb with it’s own analogue distribution channels by mail, flyers, mixtapes? Last generation of B-movies with practical effects shot on film before that part of the industry degraded into C-tier on digital with terrible CGI in the 00s? Mainstream pop culture, whatever that was? Television and radio, magazines and records before the internet took off? How would any or all of that be reimagined by people that didn’t live it back then? I had no interest then nor do I have today for fashion magazines so if somebody knows I’d love to hear your twist on the topic.
Vaporwave is that
I’m thinking that vaporwave is a niche glitch aesthetics spinoff from the dial up experience.
Doc Martens and flannel. Can you smell the grunge?
What da fuck is Eddie Vetter saying anyway?
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It’d be Niravana done in the style of Phil Collins while the video shows a vhs recording of people partying on a beach in board shorts and bikinis flanked by skaters in JNCO jeans with POGs glued to their skateboards with a club in the background that’s called “The Edge”, which is brightly adorned with a combination of “that cup design” and the pastel RGBY in geometric shapes while inside its actually got a simultaneous jungle and future aesthetic.
I can actually visualize it just by reading this. Wow.
Well, like you, I was there. Yet I know I only scratched the surface too.
It would be this.
Paper plates?
I’ve sometimes seen the style attributed to the “Memphis Group,” but I don’t know enough about design history to flesh that out, confirm, etc. Example photo of some of their items from the Wiki:
This is about the only correct answer to the question in this thread.
Depends on which part of the 90s. That whole “deep space nine” color palette was huge in the early 90s — lots of maroons and mustards and dark grays.
Earth tones people! Browns and grays!
Surfers wearing bright pastels, talking like ninja turtles, all shot on cheap video cameras.
Surf ninjas!
I’ve got a fun option for where to start, windows media player skins
Most of this was the 2000s but what’s a little bit of misdating
I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so…scared!
A return to innocence, a return to …Enya!
And etno techno. Uuh.
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Numetal is the tail end of the 90s, you’re ignoring like 80 percent of the decade there.
Dockers pale brown/green, wool, plaid.
Depends on a couple things. 90’s then or what we think of the 90’s now?
Also, first half or second half. Because basically, the internet. The internet really wasn’t a thing in peoples homes for the first half of the 90’s. That became a thing starting around 95, and became pretty much ubiquitous by the year 2000.
The early 90’s were basically the 80s. The later half was like, grunge, pop-punk, early internet.
Not how it was or how we remember it. The nineties idealised and reimagined according to what it should be like to be considered cool and interesting today, presumably by people that are too young to have lived through the doc martens and jeans and cigarette smoke that it really was.
Hmm. I shall ideate on this to the mallwave album 19999 by the artist Windows96
Unplugged.
Whatever it is it involves zumba pants
