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Pop punk singer Avril Lavigne was another face of alt-fashion during the early '00s. “I’m glad to be an influence to darker skinned girls.”

“We don’t really see dark-skinned women in fashion spaces that often,” Aliyah continued. “A lighter skinned person could do this alternative stuff and people would eat it up, but when it’s on a darker skinned person we get this negative connotation… when you’re Black you’re kind of demonized for it.” “I feel like me being a darker skinned Black woman (means) I have to work 10 times harder,” she said.

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“It starts with not caring about how you’re being perceived, not caring about who or what anyone has to say about you because you know who you are, and you carry that energy with you in your day-to-day life.” #aliyahcore also speaks to the issue of Black girls, specifically dark skin girls, not feeling welcome in the fashion world due to colorism and other negative stereotypes. “It transcends fashion,” Aliyah said of the movement. In a video call with CNN, she described #aliyahcore as a style mixing aspects of 2000s Y2K fashion and streetwea with Japanese-inspired Harajuku and Gyaru culture.Īliyah Bah has incorporated elements of the early aughts alt-fashion scene into her distinctive personal style. At the time of writing, she has over 2.6 million followers on that platform, more than 620,000 followers on Instagram, and 370,000 on Twitter. Aliyah, a 20-year-old influencer based in Atlanta, was the first person to coin the #aliyahcore hashtag during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when she began posting outfits and “Get Ready With Me” videos on TikTok. Then there’s the wildly popular #aliyahcore movement, which refers to a trend created by Aliyah Bah, better known as “aliyahsinterlude” on social media. What does the hashtag represent? Expect different, sometimes polar opposite sartorial references mixing barbiecore (which utilizes light and bright colors like pink and white) with emocore (which embraces deep tones like black and purple) color palettes, for example, or pairing old-school alt fashion pieces such as fishnets with Y2K and modern elements - earmuffs, leg garters, multiple belts, faux fur and a shower of accessories. And that’s just not OK.”Ī guide to ‘dark academia,’ the TikTok-popular aesthetic with preppy style and an intellectual focus But we have been so indoctrinated, so conditioned to believe that we only thrive in certain categories and entertainment. The group has both a Black bassist and lead singer, Skin, who told The Guardian in 2020, “We don’t get anywhere near the recognition we deserve, because our faces weren’t what the establishment wanted to define Britain.” Willow Smith has also spoken of experiencing similar prejudice, telling The Face in 2021, “Black people created rock music. It’s a reality discussed by British alternative rock band Skunk Anansie.

Despite pioneering alternative Black artists such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who fused gospel with her electric guitar as early as the 1930s to earn the moniker “the godmother of rock ’n’ roll,” and the daring, dramatic look and sound of Little Richard in the ‘50s, alternative popular culture has been dominated by White people. Aligned with music scenes and subcultures as far back as the 1950s and 60s, from rockabilly and the hippy movements to the grunge and rave of the 1990s and the noughties’ emo and cyberpunk, these are ‘scenes’ long synonymous with angst and rebellion.īut the alt space - both in music and fashion - has often felt unwelcoming to Black creatives. Whether it’s the ripped jeans and studs of 1970s punk or the heavy make-up of 1980s new romantics, the visual politics of alternative (‘alt’) fashion have always been proudly divergent from mainstream culture.