The 1990s Episode 2: Grunge Strikes Back

The 90’s marked the moment when now iconic American designers turned their distinctive fashion labels into household names. Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren cemented the notion of the designer as brand behemoth, defining an aspirational American lifestyle beyond fashio ...  Show more

Karl Lagerfeld reinvented the role of designer as a creative director, rather than just an in-house couturier. That model, which is standard today, came to wider prominence in the 90’s — a shift which will be perhaps his most lasting legacy. Lagerfeld channeled the zeitgeist and ...  Show more

For the uninitiated, grunge begins and ends with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Maybe sprinkle in a little Pearl Jam or Sound Garden and a few flannels and that’s grunge. A moment in time that has long passed, but frozen in our memories because of Cobain’s early death.But grunge is so ...  Show more

From the moment grunge music went mainstream in the fall of 1991 the clock was ticking down toward its tragic end just a few years later.But in the meantime, the huge success of Seattle bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and SoundGarden led to a frenzy by record labels to sign other g ...  Show more

Hey, teens of the 90s! What was THAT like? Many of us who lived out our teenage years in that wild, wild decade of the 1990s are filled with delight and cringe when we think back on those glory days. This week, Meg is joined by co-host Rebekah who unearthed a TEEN Magazine from A ...  Show more