The style of the noughties
The style of the noughties
An interesting view on the style of the noughties from Intelligent Life, the Economist’s quarterly magazine.
It asks designers, curators and authors to to pick the styles and items that have defined the past ten years.
The iPhone features several times. Milliner Stephen Jones says, "Communication is the issue now, not freedom and mobility: iPhone, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter. This is a big sea-change: it is more about communication through the word and less about the image. OK, we have image-sharing websites now, but what is more important is text. A few years ago the lament was that nobody writes anything any more; but actually people now write a lot. The typed, rather than spoken, word is the image of our decade".Read more at Intelligent Life.
Friday, 20 November 2009 17:03