New Rave Style
ニュー・レイヴ・スタイル / mid-2000s / Style / Subculture Style
A brief but recognizable mid-2000s meeting of indie rock and rave revival that joined fluorescent color, geometry, sportswear, DIY accessories, and direct-flash club photography around a slim rock silhouette.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Fluorescent pink, yellow, green, and blue together
- Slim pants with oversized shirt or windbreaker
- Geometric print, glow sticks, and plastic beads
- Sweaty direct-flash snapshots against a dark club
Best used for
- Showing mid-2000s indie dance through fluorescent color and direct flash
- Making cheap accessories and sports fabric into participatory event dress
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Offset a heavy geometric sans-serif in two fluorescents, returning body copy to black and white.
- Composition
- Crop figures close and cross arm and glow-stick diagonals against a black club background.
- Material
- Layer fluorescent nylon, reflective tape, plastic beads, and cotton shirts over slim black clothing.
- Caution
- Do not label all fluorescent rave dress New Rave. Name the mid-2000s indie-rock crossover and media coinage.
- Further study
- Klaxons, CSS and mid-2000s indie dance / neon sportswear and DIY rave accessories / NME coinage and the limits of a media-led label
Related entries
- Acid House Fashion (アシッドハウス・ファッション)Same Subculture Style lineage.Compare New Rave Style and Acid House Fashion
- Electroclash (エレクトロクラッシュ)Same Subculture Style lineage.Compare New Rave Style and Electroclash
More from Subculture Style
Continue through styles in the same Subculture Style family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Zoot Suit (ズートスーツ)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration / Play.
- New Romantic (ニュー・ロマンティック)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Play / Rebellion.
- Club Kids (クラブ・キッズ)Shared effects: Play / Exhilaration / Rebellion.
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