How Did We Get To The Point Of Naming Every Fashion Trend ‘-Core’?

Cottagecore fashion

Just one scroll through social media these days and you’ll see fashion styles like ‘Barbiecore’ or ‘kidcore’ or that one that we all know and love: ‘cottagecore’. But how did we get to a place where every new fashion aesthetic is melted down into some derivative of ‘-core’? How did we become so uncreative? 

Normcore is widely seen as the ‘-core’ that started it all back in 2013 by K-HOLE, an art collective based in New York. In this report, the collective speaks . . .




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