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When Gen Z stops spending and gets tired of social media trends
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To some members of Gen Z, the objects of teenage yearning feel more plentiful and less durable than ever before.
PHOTOS: NYTIMES
Callie Holtermann
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For the past few years, opening up social media has felt like standing in front of a fire hose of fashion and internet fads and cranking open the nozzle, full blast.
New “it” water bottles are anointed almost quarterly. Influencers urge their viewers to style themselves as coastal grandmothers, ballet dancers, indie sleazers and coquettes – looks that have little in common besides the consumption they require. Specious fads like the “mob wife aesthetic”, recognised by publications including this one, prompted The New Yorker’s humour column to predict what might come next: How about “Supreme Court casual” or “spotted-lanternfly goth”?
