NEW IN, FROM the people who brought you Hot Girl and Brat Summers: Messy Girl Aesthetic. (Wherein ‘aesthetic’ is the new ‘such-and-such Girl Summer’, which was the new ‘core’ but only old people say core now). What is it? What it says on the tin! Being messy, being not-done, not worrying that your mascara's slip-slid down your cheeks or that you're wearing yesterday's top or that your hair is tangled, your nails chipped and, if it sounds familiar, that's because it's a trope older than the millennium.
In the early aughts, we called it Indie Sleaze (poster women: Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse), in the ‘90s, it was grunge (Courtney Love)/the female YBAs (Tracey Emin); in the ‘70s, punk (Vivienne Westwood, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Patti Smith); and – hang…
