You do see these micro trends of peak stuff, but the idea we're living in a peak stuff world is nuts," said Tim Jackson, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey.
He often coined terms that briefly found a life online, giving rise to the "cozy boyz" fashion micro-trend of touting luxuriously comfortable clothes after giving it one throwaway mention.
A micro-trend of Sunday suppers has hit the Upper West Side: both eighty one, reviewed in this week's Tables for Two, and Dovetail are offering prix-fixe dinners to cap off the weekend.
— Andrea Thompson A micro-trend of Sunday suppers has hit the Upper West Side: both eighty one, reviewed in this week's Tables for Two, and Dovetail are offering prix-fixe dinners to cap off the weekend.
By Andrea Thompson August 12, 2008 A micro-trend of Sunday suppers has hit the Upper West Side: both eighty one, reviewed in this week's Tables for Two, and Dovetail are offering prix-fixe dinners to cap off the weekend.
It's still knitwear, sure, but in the micro-trends of touchline style, this is seismic.
It was at its best telling stories of mutation across borders, as in 1991's "Ruder Than the Rest," a legendary fourteen-page feature by John Godfrey, Derick Procope, and Karl Templer, which celebrated the street fashions and micro-trends of various London neighborhoods.
But in the gritty north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, a couple of punks named Zack Trash and Cameron MacKay have started a micro-trend of fostering baby crows.
Surely a micro trend in the making?
Is there a difference between trends, micro trends and fads?
Part of the aim of "Transmission" is to deepen the meaning of clothing in a world of e-commerce and fast fashion, where shoppers are herded blindly through a world of micro-trends before they've even realized it.
