The worst part of getting older is arguably when trends from your youth start making a comeback. Are we so old that Gen Z is already nostalgic for our high school years? Unfortunately, yes. If you had a Tumblr, MySpace, or Flickr account, get ready for young people to start referring to your aesthetics as "retro" and asking "what's that?" every time you mention any trend or form of technology that has been defunct for more than a decade. Before Instagram and Netflix, we were all sitting around in our American Apparel hoodies listening to Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes on vinyl as we voraciously read Hipster Runoff even though it was personally attacking us. I'm referring, of course, to indie sleaze, and its ongoing "comeback" as documented by Zoomers and throwback accounts on TikTok. We're talking about the deep V's, holey flannels, and huge sunglasses. We're talking about the highbrow versions of indie sleaze (Hedi Slimane, Alexa Chung), and the everyperson interpretations (absolutely nutty thrift store mix-and-matching).
Many of the iconic style staples of indie sleaze do, in fact, still hold up today. All hail the days of looking like you rolled out of bed (on purpose), being yourself, and bragging about finishing Infinite Jest. These are all the trends (at least, the ones we haven't blocked out of our memories) that we could see popping up next during this modern-day indie sleaze revival.
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