The dA-Zed guide to the 90s

As the Tate Britain’s blockbuster exhibition The 90s: Art and Fashion, opens in London, Dazed co-founder Jefferson Hack offers a guide to the decade, drawing on his experience of editing the magazine during that creatively explosive era

The dA-Zed guide to the 90s
9. Jon Shard, Flesh at The Haçienda, 1996 Courte

A IS FOR ACID HOUSE

Not just the music, but the permission it gave us. Warehouses and fields became temporary autonomous zones. For a moment, difference dissolved. Youth culture wasn’t being marketed back to itself yet; it was building its own mythology in real time.

B IS FOR BJÖRK

A singular force who channelled folklore, electronic music and fashion into something entirely her own. Shehellip;

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1. Alexander McQueen, AW 1998 Guy Marineau, Vogue,nbsp;2. Barbara Walker, Attitude 1998. (c) Barbara Walknbsp;3. Chris Ofili, No Woman No Cry 1998 © Chris Ofilinbsp;4. Corinne Day England's Dreaming, The Face, Augusnbsp;5. Eddie Otchere Metalheadz Sunday Sessions in thenbsp;6. Eileen Perrier, Untitled, Afro Hair and Beauty nbsp;
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