I’m talking about a time that anyone under the age of twenty cannot know: tecktonik. A tidal wave that could very well return… Because in recent seasons the fashion world has regurgitated several trends from the 2000s (nicknamed Y2K). And among them, in France, the tecktonik counted for a lot (too much).
In the wake of the Y2K trend, is tecktonik making a comeback?
Taken in isolation, the thong deliberately protruding from the low-rise pants, the crop top, the bicep bracelets and other large wedge sneakers evoke this beginning of the third millennium. The divisive mullet on the side of the hair also makes a comeback.
Only, when you put it all together, in a French context, it can also remember a very special draw in France: the spectrum of tecktonik…
From dark Île-de-France evenings to the French tsunami
Flashback. Since 2002 at the Métropolis, a disco in the Parisian suburbs, electro evenings have been organized where hardstyle and jumpstyle dancing are held. Nicknamed “Tecktonik Killer”these evenings, their balls, but also the derivative products imagined by the organizers to capitalize on them, are gaining popularity and attracting the interest of a large part of France.
Supported by the rise of then-new platforms for the time, YouTube and Dailymotion, the dances and the style of dress around it are gradually going viral. To the point that the media, always greedy for approximations and amalgams, have begun to confuse everything in an aesthetic nicknamed tecktonik, since 2006.
In addition to 2000s basics like low-rise jeans and crop tops, it is in the accessories that this style stands out in particular: star, stripe and checkerboard prints, gaiters and mittens, maxi belts, sometimes accompanied by braces (because you’re never too careful when you fidget so energetically), and above all fluorescent colors that increase movement tenfold. effect in clubs and on the streets.
The tecktonik fashion trend, brutally cheesy since 2008
As proof of its transition to the mainstream: this is the niche chosen by the pop-star Lorie, then at a loss, to try to win back French ears, with the clip i’m fast (and failed).
Indeed, the tsunami obliges, having brutally engulfed the clubs and the asphalt, this fashion trend has just as quickly fallen into disuse. Leaving as the only vestiges, old crests and mules in the process of regrowth and tattoos of eagles and stars with a suddenly outdated look.
TikTok stirs on the tecktonik, but from irony to desire there is only one step…
But since fashion is an eternal reboot, it’s a safe (and scary?) bet that this 2006 fad that became cheesy in 2008 is therefore making a comeback and in fluo in the 2020s with a generation Z too young to be traumatized by it.
A sign of this probable return of the fluorescent wrist rolls, the videos easily exceed one million views, and not only in France…
So maybe it’s time to run to thrift sites like Vinted, Depop and more to resell your latest checkerboard print terrycloth wristbands that are about to make a comeback! Or to embrace this look on the way back to the avant-garde if nostalgia overwhelms you with tenderness, since fashion loves to confuse irony and desire…
Yesterday’s local nerd can become tomorrow’s international avant-garde
It is precisely in its antiquated, today judged subjectively ugly, that tecktonik draws its future modernity, as the author of The taste of the uglyAlice Pfeiffer on cycling in fashion, with to miss :
” Claiming a taste for the ugly is also playing with the temporality of fashion. As much as tomorrow’s beauty may be, it gives the impression that today’s beauty already has one foot in the past. This performance of modernity helps to give birth to many incomprehensible things in fashion. The ugly assumption as such is a promise of renewal, rupture, reinvention. »
Except that today, with globalized social networks, this Franco-French phenomenon yesterday could very well afford an international dimension tomorrow. For better or for worse. Tecktonik is dead, long live Tecktonik?
A photo credit: TikTok screenshot.
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Source: Madmoizelle
Mary Crossley is an author at “The Fashion Vibes”. She is a seasoned journalist who is dedicated to delivering the latest news to her readers. With a keen sense of what’s important, Mary covers a wide range of topics, from politics to lifestyle and everything in between.
