Category: Nineteen Hundred Nineties

On Breakroom Chronicles, Safeway Workers Serve Nostalgia During Their Lunch Break

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The viral social media account Breakroom Chronicles, created by two Safeway employees who lip-sync ’80s and ’90s pop favorites, is bringing campy joy to millions.
‘Showgirls’: The Gratuitous, Surreal Bomb That Was Maybe Brilliant

The New York Times – Movies:
The reception to Paul Verhoeven’s lurid 1995 melodrama starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon was humiliating, but it’s since become a thought-provoking camp favorite.
Pearl Jam’s Bass Player Is a Style Innovator

The New York Times – Music:
Fun hats. Layers. A blend of punk and jock fashions. A new book reveals Jeff Ament’s influence on a ’90s look that swept the nation.
With ‘Barely Breathing’, Duncan Sheik Became an Accidental Pop Star

The New York Times – Music:
Sheik’s song “Barely Breathing” spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the late 1990s. But the success only propelled him closer to Broadway.
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The New York Times – T Magazine:
The artist, an enfant terrible of the 1990s, has embraced a quieter, more enigmatic style. Just don’t ask her what it all means.
Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan’s Chain-Smoking ‘Space Antihero,’ Dies at 84

The New York Times – On the Runway:
A journalist, he was the first Japanese person to enter space, joining a Soviet crew as part of a spectacular $35 million ratings stunt in 1990.
‘Point Break’: The Totally Tubular Ride With High-Voltage Buddy Chemistry

The New York Times – Movies:
Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze were locked in as star-crossed rivals in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 adrenaline-fueled, utterly earnest surf action thriller.
Melanie Ward: The 1990s Fashion Whisperer

Remembering Melanie Ward, whose singular eye and tireless work as a stylist shaped the look of a decade.
Who Would Want Their Jeans to Be Twisted?

What happens when mere baggy jeans aren’t stylish enough? Things get twisted.
Simone Bellotti Does Power Dressing at His Jil Sander Debut

Simone Bellotti makes a convincing debut at Jil Sander.
Lawrence A. Bossidy, Who Led a Major Corporate Turnaround, Dies at 90

He took over the reins of the troubled Allied Signal in 1991 and within a few years made it one of America’s best-run and most profitable companies.
Oasis Ends a 15-Year Pause With a Familiar Goal: Conquering America

The British band is huge at home, where it’ll play its first reunion show on Friday. Despite success in the U.S., the Gallaghers remain unconvinced they’ve made it there.