Sailor Chic: Making Waves or Already Overboard? By Kasey Dugan

Sailor Chic: Making Waves or Already Overboard? By Kasey Dugan

This may sound crass, but my friend and I think that ‘Fleet Week’ is the funniest thing in the world. Every year, we joke that this is the year that Fleet Week is going to...
Olderbrothercore is the New McBling

Olderbrothercore is the New McBling

By Kasey Dugan... If there’s one thing that Gen Z can agree on, it’s their unquenchable thirst for 2000s nostalgia. Just this week, Hollister released a long-awaited 2000s collection from the “vault” for consumers to...
Polka-Dots and Dot-Coms: The Internet’s Latest Fashion Obsession

Polka-Dots and Dot-Coms: The Internet’s Latest Fashion Obsession

By Kasey Dugan... When I first realized that polka dots were going to be the next “big thing” — I was in the middle of my very own “big thing” — the flu. With nothing...
Frutiger Metro: Tech, Teens, & Partying

Frutiger Metro: Tech, Teens, & Partying

By: Kasey Dugan... If you grew up in the 2000s, you might recall playing Just Dance: a video-game that taught users choreography performed by onscreen dancers. These dancers were nothing more than neon, glowing silhouettes...
Frutiger Aero: The Future of the Past

Frutiger Aero: The Future of the Past

By: Kasey Dugan... If you’ve ever been delighted by a rotating aquarium lamp, or you’ve been inside a medical facility with lime green and aqua blue accents — you might enjoy this familiar-but-forgotten 2000s aesthetic,...
The Frutiger Family: The Font That Inspired Fashion

The Frutiger Family: The Font That Inspired Fashion

By: Kasey Dugan... In the late 90s and early 2000s, people began designating spaces in their homes to display their computer systems. Larger houses may have had a computer room, or a room whose purpose...
The iPod as an Accessory: How Wearable Technology Changed Fashion

The iPod as an Accessory: How Wearable Technology Changed Fashion

By Kasey Dugan... In 2003, Apple launched a campaign that reshaped both technology and fashion. I’m talking, of course, about the iPod — introduced through iconic ads featuring black silhouettes dancing against bold, colorful backgrounds....