The rejection of 80’s values was a cultural affiliation with underground culture that challenged the norm and allowed women to embrace ‘tomboy culture’. MTV began to deviate away from the ‘pop-disco’ music of the 80’s and instead underground or alternative music began to rise in popularity.īy 1994 the alternative music scene became popular with bands such as Red Chilli Peppers and Oasis normalizing anti-conformist fashion uniform consisting of T-shirts, jeans, hoodies, and trainers, a trend which continued into the 2000s. The 80’s neon colour scheme was influenced by the introduction of MTV which many youths used as their style inspiration and this was an ethos that continued into the 1990’s. In the early 90’s the influence of 80’s ‘disco culture’ was still in providence, with an alarming array of neon bright legwarmers, scrunchies and trousers dominating the early 90’s fashion scene. But at the beginning the 90’s still borrowed trends that were popular in the 80’s and it wasn’t until the mid 1990’s that minimalism and grunge culture came into popularity. Unlike the 80’s which embraced the ‘colourful’ exaggeration of silhouettes and ‘disco-trash esque’ materials such as lurex, the 90’s was defined by Calvin Klein and alternative culture which helped streamline the 90’s image as one that supported alternative culture and/or began cultivating luxurious yet simple looks that could be worn in both boudoir and night-time ocassion wear. ![]() The 90’s has often been immortalized as an era of minimalist fashion that rejected the psychedillic creations of the 80’s.
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