- #Well color me pink and staple me to a cross... how to#
- #Well color me pink and staple me to a cross... tv#
#Well color me pink and staple me to a cross... how to#
What could I learn from them? I recruited a panel to advise me on how to dress – and live – a bit more like them. They drink less and even have fewer unplanned pregnancies. They pole-vaulted the climate crisis up the news agenda with their school strikes. They use social media not to post selfies, but to mobilise. They are Greta Thunberg (born in 2003), Billie Eilish (2001) and Malala Yousafzai (1997). The received wisdom about generation Z, on the other hand, is that they are a force for good. Hair and makeup: Katrin Rees at Carol Hayes Management Right: vintage Ralph Lauren shirt, from .uk. Like Hannah Horvath in Lena Dunham’s Girls (Hannah is a very millennial name), we’re constantly whining, because our early adult years – dented by the 2008 financial crisis – have not lived up to the expectations we formed as we grew up bingeing Sex And The City.
#Well color me pink and staple me to a cross... tv#
We are, remember, entitled, narcissistic and fame-obsessed, owing to the deadly combination of doting parents, reality TV and social media. It is also about slating millennials, which – poor us – is nothing new. Aren’t generation gaps supposed to be about kids pushing back against the lives of their parents? Instead, this is about two rival cohorts, more closely matched in age, jostling for supremacy in the noisy public sphere of social media. This may seem an unlikely battle at first. I almost spat out my avocado on toast when I read about it on Twitter. They have been calling such things “ cheugy”, the new word for basic, a term I was until recently too cheugy to know. They have been slamming Live, Laugh, Love slogans on merchandise skinny jeans crying-while-laughing emojis and side-parted hair – the very hair that is on my head. Instead, they have been mercilessly skewering passé millennial taste in viral posts online. This passing of the baton hasn’t gone unnoticed by generation Zers. Millennials – once a byword for popular culture and youth – are barely getting a look-in. Recently, however, I’ve noticed that all trends seem to point to generation Z, from the rise of secondhand clothes shopping app Depop, recently acquired by Etsy for £1bn, to the dominance of TikTok, which has about 1.1 billion active users, and estimates that 60% of its US users are aged between 16 and 24. Generation Zers have been mercilessly skewering passé millennial taste in viral posts online I’ve chased Katy Perry fans across fields at Glastonbury to pose the big questions – why bumbags, why now? – and run backstage to ask designers why they were feeling palazzo pants this season. As a fashion editor, I’ve spent the past eight years with my trend-detecting antenna on.
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