What if Gen X is actually the coolest generation?

Culturally, the Gen Xers are not safe from the teeth to cringe – they still hit this rave in which they went in 1989 even if they are in the fifties and that no one cares, and they seem frustrating and invented with the privilege that most generally play in their cynicism and their ability to be disengaged. But, look, some of the coolest people have ever honored the planet are generation X: Chloë Sevigny, Alexander McQueen, Winona Ryder, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss. Much of the music, art and the media created by my millennial and zillennial peers was built on the foundations of Riot Grrrl and Zine Culture, Sofia Coppola and David Lynch, Britpop and MTV. For a generation that does not pass so often, they are certainly wherever you look.

Regarding style, generation X was also an atmosphere. The young people today dress as if they had just left 2002 – Souachy jeans and long sleeves under t -shirts, or spaghetti strap dresses and ugly shoes. Without playing the millennium of all this, it was the Xers generation that wore this costume first. And of course, bootcut jeans were somehow invented by the cowboys, but would they have been what they were if they were not the essential uniform of generation X? Sometimes I watch old episodes of Real New York housewives (And by “sometimes”, I mean often) and think: no, but these girls have eaten. They were not opposed to a knee boot in the club and they also knew how to go wild (Gen Xers were not in lyric wax, like, skin care routines in 12 stages).

Obviously, separating and defining people by generation is a company widely devoid of meaning – I probably have more in common with a person of three years younger than me, who would be generation Z, than a 44 -year -old millennium. And a 50 year old will be extremely different from the next one (I’m almost sure that generation X invented the Karen haircut, although I don’t mention on this subject). But while General Zers and the Millennials continue to discuss who is more toast, or who was born cooler, I would like to offer another point of view, which is the following: maybe it is not one of us. And perhaps we were never the only ones in the race.

This article appeared for the first time on vogue.co.uk

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