![]() It’s the antithesis to the ‘clean girl’ aesthetic Then came the ‘normcore’ and ‘gorpcore’ aesthetics, which offered wiggle room for young people to dress down, promoting looks that felt a touch grittier - a touch more real.īella Hadid and Vittoria Ceretti for Ports 1961’s F/W 22 campaign | PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEVEN MEISEL VIA INSTAGRAM / it has been a slippery slope from the more maximalist ‘core’ aesthetics into what can only be described as messy minimalism - a look that takes elements of the pared-back 2014 Tumblr grunge style and gives it a contemporary anti-capitalist, anti-consumption (on the surface, at least) undertone. Movements such as ‘quiet quitting’, ‘act your wage’ and the post-pandemic party fever (also dubbed dopamine dressing) have been early signs that a refutation of this glossy ideal was inbound. The onset of the pandemic in 2020 saw a mass uptake of wellness culture - the ‘clean girl aesthetic’ was practically unavoidable for almost two years - and lockdowns made incredibly evident the gap between the privileged and those less so.Īs time as passed, we began to peel back the facade of these hyper-productive ideals and young people online have become increasingly disillusioned with hustle culture and the concept of living a perfectly curated life. Hustle culture dies - 2014 Tumblr grunge is revived Those who came of age in the peak era of Tumblr (myself included) may be wondering how the hell did we end up back here? While the time period (and the platform) was notorious for its glamorisation of unhealthy behaviours (a time before it was widely recognised that specific body types are not trends nor anything to aspire to or promote) the time was also paramount in defining the new youth culture through music, fashion and art, and - arguably - shaped the nature of what social media as a whole would evolve into.īut, despite the flaws of the era, there is something to be said for the way its grainy imagery, pastel accents and grunge-inspired notes became a hallmark of the first social media generation. IMAGINE BEING A TEENAGER IN 2014 I WOULD ACTUALLY KILL FOR THAT- Anna-Maria ♡’s 400yow August 3, 2022 So, dig out your tattoo chokers, pastel record players and Doc Martens because Gen Z have discovered the look - and they want in. In fact, #2014Tumblr has now garnered more than 232 million uses on TikTok, with #GrungeAesthetic and #TumblrAesthetic amassing 611 million and 46.6 million uses respectively. If social media is telling us anything right now, it is that a portal has opened and it is taking us right back to the mid-2010s - specifically, the era dubbed ‘2014 Tumblr grunge’. I really enjoy studying the designs of other silhouette artists’ work! had one colleague who really loved using hair to frame the bottom of the bust, another who LOVED intricate incuts, and another who was just soooo smooth with line design or rather the illusion of it (he was the OG disney silhouette artist tho, and it SHOWED! i think he designed quite a bit of brand logos i’ve seen in japan with silhouettes, actually).TUMBLR / / / YOU BEEN noticing suspiciously grainy photos popping up on your Instagram feed as of late? Or perhaps you’ve seen the Teenage Dirtbag trend sweeping TikTok? Or suddenly clicked that everyone is into wired headphones, messy makeup and pastel pink hair again? also while performing sleight of hand and overall being a fun magician entertainer ~performer~. also all in the span of under 3 minutes LOL. I really appreciate your kind words! i always think silhouettes reveal so much about the hands and eyes of the artisan who created them, especially where they value/balance realism, caricature, economy, likeness, and personality. a bit of collecting them, too, now since i got into antiquing and along with it rediscovering how much i do miss handling paper ephemera from my time in academia/museum world! been having fun looking through estate sales and auction house lots for different antique european silhouettes throughout the centuries, etc. i stopped cutting silhouettes for a while, but i’ve rediscovered my passion for it this year, and i’m currently educating myself more on the history of silhouette portraiture and studying notable silhouette artists (dai vernon!). I was always interested in kara walker’s silhouettes from when i worked in the fine art museum space before picking up the craft myself. Well, you’re right on the money! i learned to do them at tokyo disney :3 i was trained by french artisans and some OG disney silhouette studio peepz! Plus you're silhouettes are soooo beautiful I adore how you do the hair swoops" How did you learn to cut silhouettes ? I love doing them myself and its so uncommon to see other people doing them outside fairs/amusement parks.
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