alexander mcqueen fw94

banshee

FKA twigs wears kimono & obi by John Galliano (Mini Mono, Fall 1994 collection), photographed by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Alastair McKimm for i-D Magazine N° 357 Fall 2019

Vintage Vivienne Westwood Fall 1994 Crochet Socks and Bag

Vintage Denim Pieces from the Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 1994 Collection

(via Never-before-seen Polaroids from the set of cult cyber classic Hackers | Dazed)

Hackers, directed by Iain Softley, follows a gang of teenagers on their travels through cyberspace, encountering corporate corruption and conspiracy embedded in the code. While the tech-centric plot is very much a product of its time – floppy disks feature heavily – its throbbing, Prodigy-laden soundtrack, kaleidoscopic hacking sequences, and a photogenic young cast including Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Matthew Lillard, and more have cemented its status as a cult classic. But one aspect of its appeal, which finds itself posted and regrammed ad infinitum, is its clothing.

Wearing costumes designed by the legendary Roger K Burton – who’s dressed everyone from the cast of Quadrophenia to Kanye West – the kids in Hackers rollerblade to school, get busted by the Secret Service, and hack the planet in Seditionaries parachute shirts, Quiksilver rash guards, bondage trousers, tacky tourist tees worthy of Vetements runways, and ‘half-American football, half-medieval’ Vivienne Westwood armour jackets. There’s even a date-night homage to John Galliano’s AW94 collection, which Burton says he was fawning over at the time.

These cross-cultural touches hint at the globalisation afforded by the internet, while the vintage pieces – many of which were pulled from Burton’s own extensive archive, The Contemporary Wardrobe Collection – give the aesthetic an agelessness. Utilitarian clothing also plays an important role, with fencing uniforms, military jackets and an orange life vest adding a sense of physicality and danger to what is sometimes just a group of people sitting around a computer. “They didn’t have a big wardrobe budget, so I had to be a bit creative,” he tells us.

Jean Paul Gaultier AW94 ‘Les Tatouges’

Björk debuts a cameo appearance, downed in a running motif of furs reminiscent of traditional garments associated with Tibetan Sherpas

Kate Moss outside a show at AW94 New York Fashion Week.

Kosuke Tsumura FallWinter 1994

Kosuke Tsumura FallWinter 1994

ISSIEEEEEE

Naomi Campbell for Prada, Autumn 1994.

MOCK-NECK SWEATER WITH EXTENDED SLEEVES FROM JUNYA WATANABE COMME DES GARCONS A/W 1994