There’s a new girl in town, and it isn’t the Y2K and the McBling microtrend
Think medieval and luxuriant but modern—this best describes the emerging microtrend Enyacore. Similar to Y2K and McBling, it's another blast from the past but with a twist. Fashion, after all, repeats itself.
Y2K was the main character of the spring 2022 collections and the inspiration for many home furniture, while McBling took the streets by storm with its tracksuits, trucker hats, and baby tees. Enyacore is quite different from the two. Imagine the three as siblings with enyacore as the eldest. She's quite similar to them in that they took inspiration from the past, but she's leaning toward a moodier and more gothic style.
As the former two took to the main stage last year, critics can't help but predict how Enyacore can do the same this year or the next.
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A focus on all things medieval
It's only a matter of time before people get slowly tired of the bubblegum tees and skirts that made their way to runways, campaigns, and everyone's homes last year. Some are even over it by now.
According to Vice, New Yorkers are starting to evolve their Y2K-revival tastes of last year and curating a sultrier aesthetic that yearns not just for the 1990s but also the 1290s. Inspired by Enya’s Orinoco Flow, released in 1998, people now opt for Brutalist furniture materials with a medieval bent.
