And what did it look like from the side?Everyone wanted to seethe dress!
So much so that it inspired the idea of Google Image Search.
And so began a decade of digital fashion consumption.
Regarding mainstream fashion, it was a decade of taste so bad it was almost goodalmost.
A whirlwind look back at the in-your-face trends of early-2000s fashion, below.
Thanks in part to a certainMs.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Carrie Bradshaw, bags became the focal point of an outfit.
Bradshaw, of course, famously carried multiple iterations of the Baguette throughoutSex and the Citys fabulous six-season run.
In the 2000s each brand had a white-hot bag (or two) that fashion folk clamored to carry.
Kirsten Dunst
And over at Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs was cranking outIt bag after It bagwith clever collaborations.
These bags werenotto go unnoticed: statement making, eye-catching, and the center of attention!
Fashion is pushing its love affair with logos to the limit.
Nicole Kidman
If youve got it, flaunt it!
wroteVoguein itsMarch 2000 issue.
All the aforementioned It bags were typically brandished with a logobut that didnt stop there!
Michelle Obama
If early-2000s fashion had a square inch to spare, it was filled with an alphabet city of letters.
David Colman meets fashions new crime fighters: the Authenticators.
We can thank (or point the finger at)Alexander McQueenforthe low-rise trend.
From left: Lily Donaldson, Hilary Rhoda, Doutzen Kroes, Sasha Pivovarova, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Jessica Stam, Chanel Iman, Coco Rocha, Agyness Deyn
Five or so years later, the trend had gone full-on mainstream.
(In 2001 even Levis introduced a Superlow jean silhouette.)
It was the default rise of all jeans and pants.
Photo: Alamy
Britney Spears was a notable proponent of the belly-baring trend.
The low-rise trend also coincided with the rise of jeans for any occasion.
Designer jeans: Can we count the ways we adore them now?
Lily Cole
wrote Sarah Mower inVoguesSeptember 2001 issue.
Jeans can be street, ladylike, dressed up, dressed down.
Theyre cool for everyday.
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, 2006
Theyre fantasy and reality.
Twin forces helped to craft a new trend by the mid decade.
Stateside, it wasMary-KateandAshley Olsen.
Lil' Kim, 2000
The sum of the look was greater than its partsfashionably speaking.
Enter the bodycon dress.
You put it on, and you looked like an icon, added the designer.
Alexander McQueen’s 1995 spring/summer collection
Like the jeans in theSisterhood of the Traveling Pants, it was universally flattering.
Mouret wasnt the only designer delivering bodycon dresses.
No red carpet was complete without at least one bandage dress.
Britney Spears, 2003
Page-boy caps, It bags, and a Starbucks Frappuccino finished off the look.
For teenagers, Abercrombie & Fitchs elitist Americana prep ruled; the more polos the better.
It was a look that carried over into the early 2010s and has since been dubbedindie sleaze.
Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen at the Met Gala, 2005
In the Culture
The decade started off with the9/11terrorist attack, which left the world reeling.
In 2007 the first episode ofGossip Girlaired, andBeyonceand Jay-Z tied the knot in 2008.
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Sienna Miller, 2003 in London
Victoria Beckham in Roland Mouret, 2007
Blake Lively on location for “Gossip Girl” in Hervé Léger, 2009
Mischa Barton, 2007
Olivia Palermo, 2008
Magdalena Frackowiak, Stella McCartney, Natasha Poly, Natalia Vodianova, 2009
Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Andy Garcia promote ‘‘Ocean’s Eleven’,’ 2001
Heidi Slimane for Dior Homme, fall/winter 2005
Taylor Momsen, Blake Lively, and Leighton Meester, 2007
