Cast your minds back to 1999. We’re on the eve of a Millennium, everyone’s talking about the Millennium Bug and stocking up on canned goods…just in case.

Alexandra Shulman and her team at Vogue HQ are putting together a special edition for the momentous turn of the century.

It’s now getting close to a decade since that special edition Vogue hit the news stands with it’s new-age thinking and weighty predictions. But how many of those predictions came true?

Several high profile designers such as Dries Van Noten, Matthew Williamson and Christian Lacroix all contributed their visions of things to come within the publication. Lacroix saw body adornments, body art and clothing doubling up as accessories. If only he could have foreseen the global financial crisis, which sadly resulted in insolvency proceedings hitting his much loved fashion house earlier this year.

There was a lot of talk of skin. More skin exposed, silhouettes becoming sleek and close to the body and a return to ‘sexiness’ which perhaps had been absent from the 90’s. Over the past few seasons, we’ve seen the arrival of the body con and most recently, a nod towards the attraction of underwear as outerwear. So far, so good.

Sonia Rykiel anticipated that accessories would become more vital. Too true. Anyone remember a time during the last ten years when the handbag wasn’t a staple part of our ensemble? Wags and celebs have certainly helped to fuel the rise of the must-haves and the coveted.

Flash forward from now to the year 2020. What will the next decade bring? Don’t worry; Vogue had that covered, too. Runway shows on the moon via satellite link-up (outer-orbit trips becoming common place around 2012, naturally), evening dresses tattooed onto model’s bodies and our beloved Fashion Week becoming Fashion Day.

Who is Minister of Fashion in 2020? Why, it’s Kate Moss of course! According to Vogue, Ms. Moss was appointed by the British government, and tirelessly campaigns on behalf of British fashion as a board member of the World Fashion Council. Judging by the direction of her career so far, who knows? Lady Kate may just do it.

I’m off to buy a spacesuit...

By Rebecca Thackray

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