Our Addiction to Trends (Inspired by That 90's Show)

Know It All

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Education, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week on Know It All, Greg Brown and Mitch Moffat from AsapSCIENCE look at why exactly the 90s are back, and how so many trends seem to be cyclical. Inspired by That 90's Show, the new spinoff of That 70's Show, they look at the early days of fashion trends in the court of Louis the XIV, how trend cycles have been put into hyperdrive in the age of fast-fashion, and why nostalgia has such a hold on our brains.

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0:00.0	I'm obsessed with trend.
0:05.0	Yeah, you're aware of every trend that ever exists.
0:08.0	I feel.
0:09.0	Yeah.
0:10.0	Whereas I feel so detached and stupid all the time.
0:12.0	It started with Tamagotchi.
0:14.0	If you don't know what those are, you're probably Gen Z.
0:16.0	And then it just kept going from there.
0:18.0	And I always wanted to be on the cusp of a trend.
0:20.0	You know what?
0:21.0	My parents never let me have the things that everyone had.
0:24.0	Like Pokemon cards.
0:25.0	And, you know, like even video games.
0:27.0	I think since then I've just been thirsty
0:29.0	to have trends as a model.
0:31.0	I was one of those kids who just didn't know what the trends were.
0:33.0	And honestly, my mom just bought my clothes till I was like in university.
0:37.0	You know what?
0:38.0	You went to a Catholic school where you had to wear a uniform.
0:40.0	True.
0:41.0	I went to a public school where what you wore really was important to set you apart from other people.
0:45.0	I was wearing skinny jeans.
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