Flashing lights from DSLRs, makeup accompanied by hours of styling and accumulated miles on stilettoes all for one moment down the runway. As the audience, we often see all this happen on social media, especially watching your favourite influencer jumping from one Fashion week in Paris to another in New York.

The fashion of the mid-1960s is a time capsule reminiscent of a rising revolution; young people wore progressively more revealing clothing while womenswear became more expressive. How did this change take off? The mini-skirt and, the matriarch herself, Dame Mary Quant. 

Last year I realised I had to get my life together. I figured out I couldn’t pretend to be a computer scientist or engineer anymore. I would be destined for a life of instability and constant freelancing in a creative industry. Nevertheless, this was the crossroads I’d come to. 

In the opening of Larry Clark’s gritty and controversial 1995 film Kids, we meet two careless troublemaker teens; Telly and Casper. Their busted Chuck Taylors and baggy pants make the two immediately recognisable as delinquent skaters.

Do you remember those early Saturday morning rises? The smell of your morning toast, with an old boxy CRT television flickering the flannel clad cigarette-core style of our alt icons on ABC’s Rage?

Ever feel like the clothes you wear aren’t truly you? Maybe it’s time to ditch the constant rotation of trends and discover your own style – one thrifted gem at a time.