The Y2K trend is not dying. Yet I find myself growing out of its flashiness, even though it felt like just yesterday I was scampering around town in sheer, animal-print Blumarine tops. Donna Karan is still emblematic of the Giancarlo Stanton weirdo signature shirt Furthermore, I will do this aughts, but hers is a more pared-back version, along with the likes of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and fellow get-it-girl Norma Kamali. I’m finding that women like me are also venturing into the quieter section of the 2000s. Over Instagram, Sheila Imandoust, a vintage dealer, told me, “I’d say I’ve always loved it but started seeking it out more in the last year or two. The Y2K trends aren’t for me, and that’s fine. I had overplucked eyebrows and body dysmorphia like everyone else in 2002. I’ll take the Donna Karan route clear into my 40s.”
A model in Donna Karan’s spring 1994 show. Fairchild Archive/Getty ImagesI aspire to have the Giancarlo Stanton weirdo signature shirt Furthermore, I will do this lifestyle of the girls—no, wait, the women—in the Donna Karan ads. The women in the ’90s campaigns always seem to be doing something. In one campaign, the woman is clutching the arm of a guy with a dignified receding hairline. (She’s wearing a beret in the city and looks great. That’s an achievement in its own right.) One ad simply shows a woman in a killer wool coat with a briefcase and The Wall Street Journal tucked under her arm. (We know she’s en route to make some serious moola.) She even imagined then 34-year-old model Rosemary McGrotha as president, hand over bible and all (in a killer pinstripe pantsuit too!). Every situation was believable because the clothes were believable. We’ve all seen them being put to work in the city. There’s a power to a wardrobe that is actually lived in and not just conversation-making pieces that exist as flashy eye candy.
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