2024. Arcana 2000 is a homage to the fashion and style of the early 2000s, as well as the early photoshop techniques of editing and digital collage. The models within this project styled themselves to my brief of various themes such as 2000s video games, toys, style icons, fashion movements and subcultures.
Some examples that I gave to them were Bratz dolls (2001-), ‘The Urbz: Sims in the City’ Playstation 2 game’s character concept art (2004), the ‘SSX’ Playstation 2 game (2000) and the Aliyahcore fashion trend (2021-) as just a few ideas. Everyone already dressed in an ‘alternative’ style, so they just dressed themselves in a way that reflected an aspect of 2000s fashion or nostalgia that they liked.
The collages were created in Adobe Photoshop, made to reflect each person’s individual styles or interests, creating a nostalgic, colourful zine that shows how 2000s fashion is styled in the 2020s.