Normcore's Influence Lives on in 2024 - Highsnobiety
WEBJan 24, 2024 · Dreamed up by the eclectic squad of Greg Fong, Sean Monahan, Emily Segal, Chris Sherron, and Dena Yago, K-Hole crafted these playfully critical reports.
Sean Monahan - Substack
WEBSean Monahan is a writer and consultant based in Los Angeles. He co-founded K-HOLE, the trend forecasting group best known for coining the term normcore. He was recently profiled in The Cut for diagnosing our post-pandemic vibe shift.
Cloudy with a chance of mall goth: trend forecasting with Sean Monahan
WEBOct 18, 2022 · In a world of peak “core” and hourly TikTok fads, Monahan is the OG elder to a new gen of trend forecasters: the man who hailed the vibe shift, christened “normcore” and knows what you want even before you do.
The Nouveau Normcore Trend Ruled Spring 2023 - ELLE
WEBMar 6, 2023 · Part of the reason for its sudden return is that “we’re in a neo-yuppie moment,” says Sean Monahan, founder of trend forecasting group 8Ball and cofounder of the now-defunct collective and ...
Normcore Revisited - by Sean Monahan - 8Ball
WEBJul 12, 2021 · Normcore is a conscious attempt to dress as plainly as possible in everyday, casual, indistinguishable clothing. Are you confused by the normcore trend? Truth is ambiguous—and in the 2010’s it bent toward virality. Trend forecasters aren’t always cynical, but reality often is.
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WEBSean Monahan is a writer and consultant based in Los Angeles. He co-founded K-HOLE, the trend forecasting group best known for coining the term normcore. He was recently profiled in The Cut for diagnosing our post-pandemic vibe shift.
Normcore, Illegibility, and the Fear of Mid - Substack
WEBMay 7, 2024 · In a related piece, another former K-HOLE member, Sean Monahan, wrote about a revival of normcore discourse following Balenciaga’s 2021 couture show, which represented “a rejection of the surface over substance dynamic social media inspired.”
Why the super-rich love understated dressing - BBC
WEBSean Monahan, founder of consultancy 8Ball – plus the man who helped coin the term "normcore" back in 2013 and predicted a "vibe shift" in a famous 2021 article – agrees that an emergence from...
A Vibe Shift Is Coming - PressReader
WEBFeb 17, 2022 · Monahan, who is 35, breaks down the three vibe shifts he has survived and observed: Hipster/Indie Music (ca. 2003–9), or peak Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, high-waisted Cheap Mondays, Williamsburg, bespoke-cocktail bars; Post-Internet/Techno Revival (ca. 2010–16), or the Blood Orange era, normcore, dressing like The Matrix, Kinfolk the club ...
Sean Monahan - Founder - 8Ball | LinkedIn
WEB‘Diagramming the Decade: Trends of the Twenties’ by Sean Monahan placed Pattern Brands squarely as ‘Bourgeois Normcore’ (whole left column) for this…
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