If you want to sound like a true Internet subculture connoisseur, it’s worth brushing up on the difference between the Y2K and McBling aesthetics. What are the origins of the Y2K aesthetic?

With a new Gen Z-focused platform and a high-profile DJ collaboration, Von Dutch is on a mission to reinsert itself into the ...

For his spring 2023 collection, Brognano doubled down on a Y2k-meets-grunge aesthetic, with a shimmering abundance of flared low-rise jeans and sheer minidresses, reminiscent of the ocean’s ...

“Specifically, the beauty of the women and the men, the style of the people in ... helped to shape the Y2K aesthetic globally, and this impact is evident in Nollywood. Jim Iyke’s bad-boy ...

The Y2K fashion trend—known for its pink, bedazzled, and nostalgic aesthetic—has finally faded and its futuristic counterpart, Y3K fashion, is taking over. Y3K is a sci-fi-inspired fashion ...

Twenty-five years into the new millennium, Y2K aesthetics and millennial nostalgia are still alive and well in Colette Shade's new book, Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future ...

If Shade were just identifying the Y2K aesthetic, this book would be quickly consignable to the remainder pile. Some of her narrative leaps do falter, like that modem straining to connect.