Fashion's look back on the decade
What a different picture it was this year, after the crash, with “shopping in your closet” the norm, chunky costume jewelry more prevalent than pricey gold designs, and a style setter in the White House more fond of shopping at J. Crew and indie designers than Bergdorf Goodman and Oscar de la Renta.
When the decade began, style seers predicted that futuristic icy blue shades, silver surfaces and plasticized finishes would be popular, but they never materialized, says Sharon Graubard, a trend analyst.
“The thing is that 9/11 happened early in the decade, and we went into cocooning. We wanted warmth and protection and comfort,” says Graubard, senior vice president at Stylesight, an online trend content provider for fashion and related industries.
And it was time to look back rather than forward. “There were bits of ‘60s hippies, ‘70s disco, ‘80s punk, ‘90s grunge; everything came up for grabs,” she says.
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