Doc Marten to Yohji: Come As You Are

Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:44am

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Flashback: the mid-90s.

Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, flannel shirts, babydoll dresses, smeared red lipstick â€“ and of course, the obligatory Doc Martens.

With Marc Jacobs revisiting his grunge collection for inspiration and the recent rebirth of plaid, '90s redux footwear is the inevitable next step. And ever since Gareth Pugh sent girls down the catwalk in towering platform Docs last fall, weâ€™ve been waxing nostalgic for our foregone clunky black boots.

The thing is â€“ weâ€™ve grown up a little bit since our â€œI want to be the girl with the most cakeâ€? days, and luckily Dr. Marten's have too. The boot brandâ€™s collab with Yohji Yamamoto for Fall 07 results in a desirable pair of deep purple Docs.

But with the black, purple, and deep red Yohji Docs, plus the PVC leggings recently spotted on Mischa and Nicole, is '90s goth replacing '90s grunge as the go-to influence?

-- ALISON COOL

posted by Jordan

Jul 20, 2007 12:31PM

I'm having major Empire Records/Jennifer Aniston on the first season of Friends flashbacks. (And I never thought I'd love it, but I do.)

posted by guest

Jul 20, 2007 12:53PM

Hopefully if they are being made for Yohji the quality will be what it once was; Docs changed manufacturers and the comment has been that they just didn't wear as well as they used to.

So very very happy fashion is going to get away from the craptastic 80s loop we've been in.

posted by glenn

Jul 20, 2007 1:00PM

'90s? Doc Martens made their mark in the '80s first. Punks were mad for them then. A lot of grunge was just a weary re-tread of 80s American punk/hardcore.

posted by Faran

Jul 20, 2007 1:03PM

Ah yes, fashion-stolen-from-subcultures.

Alas, Docs didn't make their mark on teenage girls and runway chicks until the '90s, so that's where this blog has to place them.

posted by anon

Jul 20, 2007 1:12PM

will the price point be more doc martens or more yohji?

posted by ZoÃ«

Jul 20, 2007 3:42PM

WHERE can I get a pair?

posted by Jordan

Jul 20, 2007 4:14PM

Yayyyy. I want grunge back! I missed it the first time.

posted by Ani

Jul 21, 2007 1:52PM

Fashion always borrows from a subculture. Grunge hit the fashion world in the spring 1993 collection of Perry Ellis by Marc Jacobs. So that is still the early 1990's. By the mid 1990's fashion was all over the 50's retro look. ;)

posted by Sandra Mendoza-Daly

Jul 21, 2007 7:45PM

This is why you should wear what ever you want to wear because eventually, your subculture will become high fashion as well.

Does the 50s look ever really go out of style?

posted by Ani

Jul 22, 2007 8:01AM

Sandra it goes away for a while when it gets oversaturated. Then designers bring back the whole "lady look" of the 1950's.

posted by KA

Jul 22, 2007 4:09PM

Argggghhhhh...I HATE grunge, but I totally called this a couple of years ago.

And even though the Yoshi boots are kind of cool, and even though I like strappy boots, I think I'll stay away from the Docs since they're inevitably going to be worn by every middle-school kid on the block.

posted by lk

Jul 22, 2007 4:39PM

grunge wasnt kurt nor court.
more like pearl jam. but anyways this trend is very sad for me.

posted by Bonnie Lass

Jul 22, 2007 8:52PM

@KA

Was that a typo? Didn't you mean 'every middle-aged dyke on the block?'

posted by fdh

Jul 24, 2007 2:30AM

This is why you should wear what ever you want to wear because eventually, your subculture will become high fashion as well.

-sandra i love you for this quote.
i even saved it