[Editor's note: Flavorwire is counting down our most popular features of 2010. This post comes in at position number 4. It was originally published August 20, 2010.] It always made sense that Seinfeld, one of TV’s greatest and most original sitcoms, would remain influential over a decade after ending its run. But honestly, we never imagined it would be celebrated for its fashion. And yet, The New York Times recently suggested that the show’s very own hair clip-loving, couch cover dress-wearing Elaine Benes is “the summer’s downtown fashion muse.” While we don’t necessarily agree, we can see what they’re saying, and nothing could be more obvious than the larger point that the ’90s style revival is in full swing. For those of us who don’t fancy wearing socks and grandma frocks together, we’ve compiled a photo gallery of 10 other fictional characters from the ’90s who would make perfectly good fashion icons in 2010.
Angela Chase: Perhaps the decade’s ultimate teen-angst icon, My So-Called Life‘s Angela rocked layers, flannel, and brightly dyed red hair. There’s no question her grunge chic is all over both the runway and the street in 2010, when companies are even naming shoes after the show. Hell, Claire Danes’ heroine is even providing style inspiration for indie rock’s woman of the hour, Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast.
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Elaine as the fashion muse? She’s already the white girl dance muse!
uh, yeah, where do you think Liz Lemon learned to dance? ELAINE!
Heathers!!! Gossip Girl ensembles remind of the color-coordinated outfits on Heathers.
awesome = my 10-year-old desire to be Angela Chase can now be fulfilled by my 26-year-old ability to pay for MSCL-fashionable styles.
If Blossom’s hats come back into fashion, I’ll eat my… well, you know.
Where is Audrey Horne from Twin Peaks? She is a classic.
Where’s Elaine from Seinfeld!
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Empire Records! Love.
Stop it. STOP IT! No way you can tell me recycling horrible fashions from the past somehow makes them hip. It makes them doubly horrible. Like this fad for ridiculously lavish weddings, it was never a good move, unless maybe when it represented the union of two dominant world powers, like Spain joining with the Netherlands. Also, anal sex is taking over the sex fashion world, like it did during the fall of the Roman Empire. Yeah, lets recreate that happy time…
Whether you want ‘em to come back or not, these fashions are on the way back…
But where are the names of the costume designers who created these characters?? The characters we remember for their clothes are remembered because of that costume designer doing his or her job well.
you missed Winona in heathers and early-seasons Buffy.
@Alicia RIGHT? Dude Audrey Horne all the way.
Don’t forget Daria and Jane! Those big chunky boots with tights and shorts are making a MAJOR resurgence at the moment!
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what, no parker lewis?
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