Come January, the oughts decade (or whatever you call it) will be kaput, and the fashion retrospective onslaught has begun—some takes more clever than others.
New York magazine’s Harriet Mays Powell has her picks for short-lived trends over the past 10 years. Some of the most insidious entries sadly were conceived in our hometown: trucker hats (2003-2006), the Juicy Couture-wrought “all-day gymwear” (same years) and “solid basics, skeevy ads” (2005-; see below post on American Apparel).
Other LA-spawned trends aren’t so reflexively eyerolling in nature, depending on your personal taste. Mays Powell includes “west coast flowy” style, likely thanks to Roberto Cavalli or DVF wrap dresses styled by Ms. Zoe. True, the look was all-over-obnoxious for a few mid-decade months, mostly due to the size -2 girls wearing silk chiffon and 72 gold bangles per arm who personified it. But Laurel Canyon songstresses mastered the aesthetic decades before, if in more earnest terms. Expect yet another resurgence in the years to come.
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