Photos: JB Villareal / Shoot Digital1/15New Beginnings
The collectsions shown in February 2000 were designed under the cloud of Y2K. No one knew what the new century would bring, technologically or otherwise. And no one captured the spirit of disruption better than the New York–based Spaniard Miguel Adrover. He might have gotten a cease and desist order for his inside-out Burberry coatdress, but there was no stopping his message to the industry: Resist!
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Remember when a hat was just a hat? Here are two examples from Fall 2000, by John Galliano and Helmut Lang.
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Shown two months into Y2K, several Fall collectsions’ looks had a futuristic vibe. It’s not difficult to imagine Rey, the heroine of the retooled Star Wars movies, in either of these outfits by Olivier Theyskens and Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga.
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With one foot in the gym and one in the street, athleisure offers a soft-core take on sportiness. For Fall 2000, designers explored far more rugged terrain. These looks, by Yohji Yamamoto and Ann Demeulemeester, have a Mad Max vibe.
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This year saw lots of movement in the show schedule, with many New York brands deciding to show in Paris, as Jeremy Scott and Marc Jacobs did before them. Both designers proved they were in thrall to the City of Light in their Fall 2000 collectsions; Scott used Paris logos, and Jacobs, then working for Louis Vuitton, accessorized with jaunty berets.
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Designers’ delight in denim is nothing new. Here, two takes from Fall 2000 by Martin Margiela and Alexander McQueen.
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Kirakira wasn’t even a twinkle in a programmer’s eye when, for Fall 2000, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, and Alber Elbaz at Yves Saint Laurent demonstrated the ageless appeal of metallic sparkle and shine.
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A decade and a half before hygge had designers putting blankets and quilts on the runway, Hussein Chalayan closed his stellar Fall 2000 show with a table that converted into a skirt—and an indelible fashion moment.
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The 45th president isn’t the only one addicted to the news; our collectsive media obsession was referenced by the many newspaper prints that appeared in the Spring 2018 collectsions, which nodded to Dior’s of Fall 2000, which, in turn, paid homage to that of Elsa Schiaparelli.
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Unless you are Cher or Bella Hadid, you might not want to give the pantless look a go, though Julien Macdonald and Alexander McQueen teased the trend for Fall 2000.
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Homespun crafts got the fashion treatment at Julien Macdonald and Anna Sui for Fall 2000, a move that was widely replicated in 2017.
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Football and fashion might be trending for Spring 2018 (see Koché, Faith Connexion), but John Galliano got there first with his playful, childhood-themed show for Fall 2000.
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Statement dressing, circa Fall 2000, wasn’t for the faint of heart. Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe, and Alexander McQueen all showed extra-wide skirts and inflated sleeves. Among the designers turning up the volume for Spring 2018 were Off-White’s Virgil Abloh and Alexander McQueen’s Sarah Burton.
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More than a decade before Instagram banned the nipple, Miuccia Prada and Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld seemed to be advocates of a sort of postmodern modesty. The scarf and sequin shields they proposed for Fall 2000 seem to draw, rather than deflect, attention from the décolletage.
