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Raver Fashion: Feel It Coming On?

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BLOWING UP Raver fashion
Get your glowsticks ready—for better or for worse, twinky, tacky raver fashion is coming back. Be it in East London or New York's Lower East Side, the trendsetting youths are dressing up as if it's 1994 again. And no, it's not like those suburban rave parties with muffin-topped freshman chicks in DayGlo necklaces making out. According to the British Sunday Times, the hip and the beautiful people are doing it too:
"New rave is a second coming: not just a throwback to the lawless euphoria of its golden age, but an aesthetic focus for a new generation of club kids, artists, fashion students and night-time celebrities who just want to dress up and get down."

Inspired by the London club scene, international fashion phenomenon (and Donatella Versace's protégé) Christopher Kane has been showing fluorescent mini dresses that received rave reviews. But before your run off to change into your UFO overalls and lime goggles, Radar reminds you that every peak has its low, especially in raver fashion.

[Photographic proof of the dangers of ravewear after the jump]

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FLOURESCENT MESH OUTFITS They can either work for you or against you, but if you're over 17, don't go there, girlfriend.


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PINK HAIR It doesn't matter if you have a colorful personality, pink hair only looks enchanting on Natalia Vodianova (left).


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RAVE BRIDES AND GROOMS The hardest part is finding a groom with a severe case of gayface. The rest is easy.


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GRAVITY BOOTS See, there really is something uglier than Uggs.
Comments

wow we are having some severe 90s nostalgia. the return of grunge, the ravewear/music, 90210 finally out on dvd...i'm kind of just crossing my fingers for skorts to come back.

Posted by: gametime on November 14, 2006 11:51 AM

Looks like half of these pictures were taken at Burnin Man Festival. Notice the desert setting. And, it would be another article entirely to figure out if Burners are following fashion, or just wearing stuff they don't mind trashing in the dust.

Posted by: aumni on November 19, 2006 12:56 PM

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