In Our Hyper-Niche Style Era, There’s a -Core for Everyone

We live in a time of cores. Cowboycore! Gorpcore! Cottagecore! And, of course, normcore. Some of these terms have been around for a decade or so, while others started bubbling up in the pandemic era to help make sense of the very difficult-to-define styles that seemed to rise and fall by the hour. I’m as guilty as anyone of coming up with fun little names to jokingly define a half-trend. But I wasn’t expecting to be part of one myself—until I received a notification on Instagram telling me that a photo of me had appeared on an account called…@Gnomecore. And… Read Full Article