“You hear Y2K, and you get nostalgic. That’s how dramatic and fancy Y2K was – from shiny materials to faux jewellery, it’s all back in vogue again,” says Anand Singh, fashion design manager at DaMENSCH, a men’s fashion brand. “Two decades and a bit after its appearance, the Y2K comeback proves once again the cyclical nature of fashion.”

‘Y2K’ or the ‘Year 2000’ style, known for defining the trends in clothing during the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s, has once again become a buzzing topic in fashion discourse in the past three to four years. The term Y2K, which infamously referred to a potential tech bug which would create a complication in the date-settings of a computer, is also popularly used to describe the aesthetics of that time, which represented the radiant optimism of the young teens and adults of the 90s as they stepped into a new millennium.