How to Wear Jewellery (& sunglasses) like a Britpop Icon

Spoiler: with nonchalance.

It's Amazing To Be Young, a song by an Irish band Fontaines D.C. is playing on the radio, and the sound of it takes me back immediately. Something about that dreamy guitar and clapy rhythm reunites me with emotive and introspective memories planted and grown three decades ago on the kindly soil of tunes by Smashing Pumpkins, Super Furry Animals, Cure, and Morrissey. These nostalgic soundscapes capturing the essence of youthful self reflection I hold dear to my heart, as they mark the time and culture that changed and formed my perception and style forever.

Before I knew fashion, I knew music.

Alternative rock and britpop bands of the mid 90s were inevitable force of nature in my universe (and I believe it was the beginning of the end in terms of mass fashion and ever speeding trends terror we now live in, but I’m not here to write about fashion…