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?

You head out the door, rocking low-rise jeans, a baby tee with a bold statement, a trucker hat, or a velour sweatsuit.

What we commonly know as the Y2K aesthetic is really the McBling look. Y2K is more about frosty metallic finishes and futuristic motifs, whereas this Bush-era look of excess emphasizes luxury ...

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 ...

The cover of Colette Shade’s “Y2K ... of Black art to explain the ills of society while simultaneously demonstrating how hip-hop captured those ills in its aesthetics. The Bling Era, Shade ...

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 ...

Like most cultural trends, notions of beauty are cyclical, and the Y2K revival is no exception. After years of supermodel aesthetics and 1990s-inspired looks dominating the early 2010s ...

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.

With its much-awaited debut, rookie boy band DIGNITY brings a fresh take on Y2K aesthetics to the K-pop ... At the press event held in Ilchi Art Hall, Gangnam District, Seoul, to commemorate ...