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Opinion: The Epidemic of Nice Clothes

A deluge of inoffensive fashion is what happens when there is nothing left to copy, writes Eugene Rabkin.
Auralee look on the Paris runway.
Auralee look on the Paris runway. (Launchmetrics/Spotlight)

In 2010’s “Retromania”, the music critic Simon Reynolds sketched out how pop music descended into pastiche through endless regurgitation of past styles. Whereas virtually every decade of the 20th Century gave birth to unique musical movements, Reynolds saw an alarming lack of innovation in the 2000s. The same might be said of fashion: by the late 2000s, it was hard to discern what style defined the decade.

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