Raise yourself! Why the Middle Ages not only celebrates its comeback on the catwalk

The fashion of the last looks is striking ... wild. Applications can be seen enlarged by applications, voluminous layers of art and: robust leather and chains in the medieval style.„Castle Core“was also called out by Pinterest as one of the big trends for this year. The search volume for the term has been increasing there for months. Under keywords such as„Medieval Weird Girl Core“Young women in chain robes or create look books that interpret medieval elements in a modern way. Are we longing for a fashionable escapism in the past in an uncertain periods? Or have we long since arrived in a modern form of the Middle Ages?

Retrospective aesthetics such as those of the Gothic culture are of course not entirely new. In recent years, too, medieval style elements have repeatedly stood out in various runway collections. Nevertheless, it is worth taking a look at the current interpretation of the style - and asking yourself why the Middle Ages are not only celebrating a comeback on the catwalk.

Of course, you can never translate phenomena that you discover on the catwalk. But you can derive a lot from them. For example, the longing for a past that is so far away that it hardly seems to have anything to do with today's reality (see "Castle Core"). Even if we no longer live in the historical Middle Ages, there are even a whole series of research that is alreadyAge of modern Middle Ageshave proclaimed. This means that in the present there is not only a pop cultural fascination and imitation of this era - look at Chappell Roans costumes and armor - but also a structural comeback. The bulky term for this isNeomediävalism. According to this, social media also have similarities with the decentralized power centers of the medieval Europe. There are different platforms and communities here instead of central control.

In fashion, however, there are other reasons that draw our attention to the past. In addition to influences from fantasy literature and series such as "Game of Thrones", the time inspiration for trends simply rotate incredibly quickly. We have already rushed through the styles of the past 50 years - now we have to dig deeper in the trick box.

Perhaps there is neither nostalgia nor escapism in the medieval style. Why should we want to beam of all times when women other than witches were burned at the stake? Perhaps "Medieval Core" is more of an artistic appropriation and defense of what is happening in many places in the world: regression. Because wherever power -hungry men come together and forget that there is more than one gender in the world, a skin color and a way of thinking, it is said for the rest of the population: Review!