In 2022, as America emerged from the pandemic, we got a glimpse at the wild energy of the Gen Z aesthetic.
in an interview with “W”: “Portia is consumed by TikTok and ‘the discourse.’ … So we thought it would make sense that she is trying hard, and that she follows the mish-mash trends.”
“Pre-pandemic, I noticed a lot more monochrome. Top-and-bottom beige, top-and-bottom white, top-and-bottom black. After the pandemic, things got very loud,” Cirillo says. But his photos lately, he says, have been a parade of pleats and ’90s-style pattern-clashing, “an explosion of hot pinks and electric blues and bright reds” — not to mention more skin. Before, “you didn’t see as many bras as tops, or sheer clothing,” he says.
Maybe some people quietly felt it happen, the subtle change in the air. But it bowled over Emma McClendon like a gust of wind. McClendon is one of America’s few true authorities on cool pants; she literally wrote the book on them, “Denim: Fashion’s Frontier,” in 2016. So you can imagine McClendon’s dismay this fall when she emerged from her upstate pandemic hideaway, started a new job teaching fashion studies at St. John’s University in Queens and discovered her pants were uncool.
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