With today’s launch of Vogue Runway, the nineties have taken a strong hold on Vogue.com—but this summer, a mere look at our favorite street style stars is enough to confirm that the decade’s wave-making beauty trends are enjoying a major resurgence. Just last night Ciara set the MTV Video Music Awards abuzz by lobbing off nearly a foot of her long black hair. The style may have been new for the singer, but its architectural lines appeared on the red carpet almost 20 years earlier, when a young Reese Witherspoon found blunt-cut perfection in a nearly identical sleek long bob. And that’s not the only era-signature that’s making a comeback: Brick red lipstick—a makeup go-to for major nineties icons like Drew Barrymore—has also worked its way back into heavy rotation, acting as a tough but feminine update to the jeans and T-shirt equation or a modern counterpoint to bright cocktail dress (see: Joan Smalls).
Further evidence of the decade’s influence can be found in the crop top renaissance. The abbreviated style, beloved by supermodels from Stephanie Seymour to Naomi Campbell, is making sculpted abs a necessity for It girls like Gigi Hadid. And even the most extreme nineties risk takers are receiving a nod from today’s beauty chameleons. Gwen Stefani donned the multiple bun trend in the ’90s, a look now regularly sported by FKA twigs with her signature braided knots. And Linda Evangelista, who famously quadrupled her rate by cutting her hair, has found a fan in Rihanna, who seemed to reference the supermodel’s fiery, intentionally superficial red crop when conceiving her own shocking lineup of shape-shifting looks earlier this season. After all, in the words of Evangelista, “Any reaction is a good reaction as long as they notice.” From romantic, face-framing tendrils to the lip color that defined a decade, six reasons why everything old is new again.
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