![]() ![]() It's not quite clear exactly what era people are talking about with the Y2K trend in the same way it's not quite clear what era people are talking about with the indie sleaze trend. I think it's funny both the Y2K trend and the indie sleaze trend - they refer back to kind of a fuzzy period of time. I feel like I know a lot of people who've been waiting for that to end. The Y2K trend has been quite dominant in fashion, particularly at the spring 2023 shows in September and October. What's interesting to me is which things that kind of come out of that churn - of what I sometimes call the self-appointed avant-garde - actually make it through into something that impacts the way that people shop and dress and behave. With some of my peers who work in the art world or the fashion world, I think that they might have a higher novelty preference and be cycling through micro-trends at a different clip than a broader consumer market. One of my friends was like, “I think the indie sleaze thing is so over already.” And I was like, “Uh, I don't know.” I went to the Celine Show in Los Angeles a week or so ago. I think we're still going through this kind of early 2000s nostalgia phase and that's going to last for a while. Where do you think culture is at right now? The conversation has been edited and condensed. Read on for explanation on each item.Īhead, Monahan and I discuss the vibe shift and where the 2020s are going in more depth. This is based on my conversation with Monahan. And that's when you decide who's going to make it into the future and who's going to be relegated to the past.’ And I feel like that's a bit what 2022 was for a lot of people, this realization that the last decade is over.” The quote is something like, ‘There'll be new people and new faces and it takes a couple years into a decade for things to really get going. He said, “In one of the episodes - and I'm paraphrasing here - Andy Warhol talks about how a couple years into a new decade, things start to look and feel different. When we talked on the phone this week, Monahan - who was previously known for naming “normcore” - asked if I had seen The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix. Back then, bars and restaurants were opening up, people were getting vaccinated, and normal life seemed poised to resume after the pandemic lockdowns, so conditions were ideal for culture to release itself onto a brand new splash pad. He told me that it had shifted, to him anyway, around the time that he wrote his original Substack post. The New York article framed the vibe as in flux - something that was “coming” for us instead of something that was already here - so I called Monahan to ask if, with 2023 on the horizon, the vibe has now shifted. Musically-well, I’ve already made my prediction: it’ll be a return of rock. ![]() The players are personalities more interested in the literary than the artistic, more interested in the who follows than the how many followers. It’s clearly a return to scene culture, contains elements of Naughty Aughties nostalgia. ![]() I’m hesitant to name our current vibe shift. Monahan, founder of trend forecasting consultancy 8Ball, published an article in June of 2021 called “ Vibe Shift ,” describing the moment as a major point of cultural inflection, when popular tastes undergo a rare sea change. She earned the victory with a time of 10.82 seconds in the 100-meter.8Ball. The sprinter recently advanced to the 2023 World Championships after winning her first title at the 2023 United States Track and Field Championships last Friday (July 7). ![]() In 2021, she was suspended from competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games after testing positive for cannabis, a penalty that drew criticism and saw Richardson receiving support from Diddy and others in the Hip-Hop community. Richardson exploded onto the national scene in 2019 as a track star at Louisiana State University, breaking two U20 records at the 2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships. The mark put Richardson ahead of previous record-holder Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast, who ran 10.75 at the Oslo Diamond League the month prior. clocking a record-breaking 10.71 seconds in the opening heat of the 100m dash, the best time of 2023. Earlier this month, Richardson ran at the United States Championships in Eugene, Ore. Richardson’s outburst comes amid a resurgence in success and popularity, as the Texan has scored a number of high-profile victories on the track while simultaneously making history. #espys- Sha’Carri Richardson July 13, 2023 Half of the athletes there now could not do what we do on our WORST day. The disrespect that track & field receives in the USA alone is nasty. The ESPYS invited me when my life was in shambles as if I was a charity case. ![]()
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